Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/06/2009
ISBN: 9780099503651
Length: 432 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm
Weight: 298g
RRP: £9.99
Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse contains its own histories, far darker and murkier than the Mallinsons are used to dealing with. As the illusion of Eden retreats, the couple begin to feel the vulnerability of being among strangers...
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/06/2009
ISBN: 9780099503651
Length: 432 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm
Weight: 298g
RRP: £9.99
Superior novel...wincingly precise in his imagery and technically adept... An electric and darkly gleeful read
An immensely clever, tragicomic novel...a rich meditation on past and present colonial politics... What resonates for me is what I greatly admire in all Thorpe's work: the complex depth, and the texture and poetry of his storytelling language
An intimate depiction of family life... Vivid and luminous
Because this is Adam Thorpe, there are only two things you know for certain: that the writing will be gorgeous, silky-smooth; and that the plot will be entirely original, defying categorisation...enjoy
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