Synopsis
In Burning Bright prize-winning author Helen Dunmore explores homelessness and hopelessness on the unforgiving streets of London where you can easily be taken advantage of, if you’re not careful. . .
Nadine, a sixteen-year-old runaway new to London, is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Finnish lover, Kai. Slowly, she begins t suspect that Kai’s plans for her have little to do with love. ‘Be Careful,’ warns Enid, the elderly sitting tenant in the house, who knows all about survival and secrets. And when Nadine discovers Kai’s true intentions, Enid’s warning takes on a terrible and prophetic quality.
‘A story of terrible innocence’ Independent on Sunday
‘The denouement is mesmerizing. One goes on addressing the problems of evil which Dunmore raises, long after one has finished her electrifying book’ Sunday Times
‘Outstanding. The plot unfolds with both tension and inevitability as Dunmore plays off past against present, rubs together contemporary themes of urban corruption with far-off memories of taboo passion’ Sunday Telegraph
Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult novel, the McKitterick Prize winning, Zennor in Darkness. Her novels, Counting the Stars, Your Blue Eyed Boy, With Your Crooked Heart, The Siege (Shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002), The Betrayal, A Spell of Winter, House of Orphans, Mourning Ruby and Talking to the Dead, and her collection of short stories Love of Fat Men are all published by Penguin. Helen also writes for children, her titles include The Deep and Ingo.
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141033945
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 272
Published : 27 Mar 2008
Publisher : Fig Tree
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