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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 04/05/2000
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ISBN: 9780099272762
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Length: 224 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
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Weight: 160g
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RRP: £12.99
To escape from her own sadness, a woman finds refuge in a past time. In a village by the sea she watches the lives of the inhabitants unfold around her. But the year is now 1410 and this is a world of devils and miracles, a world in which there are no clear boundaries between reality and the power of the imagination.
A man's discovery of a mermaid washed up on the sand starts a chain of events that leads three of the villagers to accompany the enigmatic figure of the leper on a pilgrimmage to the Holy Land. The woman joins them and sets out without the certainty of ever coming home again.
The Leper's Companions was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 04/05/2000
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ISBN: 9780099272762
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Length: 224 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
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Weight: 160g
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RRP: £12.99
Reviews
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"As beautifully written and as profoundly researched as all Julia Blackburn's work"
Spectator
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"A remarkable evocation of another time and another frame of reference"
Daily Telegraph
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"Julia Blackburn has an extraordinary talent for thinking herlsef into other worlds... Reading her book, you experience the uncanny sensation that you have somehow always known these places"
Evening Standard
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"She wears her talents like a modern Renaissance woman with elegance and affable ease"
The Times
