Imprint: Vintage
Published: 06/03/2008
ISBN: 9780099507123
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 224g
RRP: £8.99
From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
1916. Pretty Eithne Clay runs a ramshackle South London boarding house with the help of her teenage son, Ralph, and their maid, Winnie. Struggling to keep herself, her lodgers, and her son going as every day life vanishes in the face of war, Eithne’s world is transformed by the arrival of Mr Turk, the virile, carnal, carnivorous local butcher who falls passionately in love with her. As the house bursts to life with the electricity – metaphorical and real – he brings, dark secrets come to light…
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 06/03/2008
ISBN: 9780099507123
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 224g
RRP: £8.99
From the first perfect sentence this novel is a gem. Its pared sentences and vocabulary really capture the time
The Moggacch miracle continues- here's another vivid, gripping yarn from the author of Tulip Fever... with a plot as twisty as a mountain road
This wartime novel of ordinary Londoners is atmospheric and buzzing with electricity... a spirited portrait of lives thrown into turmoil by the Great War
Like the recent novels by Ian McEwan and Sarah Waters, In the Dark successfully modernises the past. By focusing on life's murkier undercurrents... the characters come to seem appealingly familiar
A thoughtful diligent writer