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Clare Morrall - Language of Others, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Language of Others

A 'very readable, very moving' (The Times) story of family and friendship from the Booker-shortlisted author

Av Clare Morrall

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Beskrivning
'A surprisingly joyful novel' Daily MailThe world is a puzzling, sometimes frightening place for Jessica Fontaine. As a child she only finds contentment in playing the piano and wandering alone in the empty spaces of Audlands Hall, the dilapidated country house where she grows up.Twenty-five years later, divorced, with her son still living at home, Jessica remains preoccupied by the desire to create space around her. Then her volatile ex-husband reappears, the first of several surprises that both transform Jessica's present and give her a startling new perspective on the past.The Language of Others tells the absorbing story of a woman who spends much of her life feeling that she is out of step with the real world, until she discovers why. Related with humour and compassion, it offers a fresh, illuminating insight into what it means to be 'normal'.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-10-16
  • Mått: 131 x 198 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 266 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 384
  • Förlag: Hodder & Stoughton
  • ISBN: 9780340896679
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Clare Morrall's first novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, was published in 2003 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year. She has since published the novels Natural Flights of the Human Mind, The Language of Others, The Man Who Disappeared, which was a TV Book Club Summer Read in 2010, The Roundabout Man and After the Bombing.Born in Exeter, Clare Morrall now lives in Birmingham. She works as a music teacher, and has two daughters.

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It's the warmth and roundedness of her characters that give Morrall's novels their appeal . . . THE LANGUAGE OF OTHERS offers a suspenseful tale with a taut, spare style and real emotional impact. In this and in its brave challenge to our assumptions about what it means to be normal it's a more than worthy shelfmate to Astonishing Splashes of Colour.

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