Sinossi
The 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'.
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Recensione
Praise for NATURAL FLIGHTS OF THE HUMAN MIND (.)
A powerful reflection on shame, revenge and the consequences of our actions. Like a latter-day George Eliot, Morrall has a gift for creating a moving story out of potentially unpromising material . . . a writer of real talent. ( Daily Mail )
'Pacey and page turning. Absorbing and beautifully written' ( Daily Express )
'Gripping . . . Morrall is in complete command of her complex material' ( Times Literary Supplement )
'Warm, witty and a testament to the human spirit' ( Australian )
NATURAL FLIGHTS OF THE HUMAN MIND is solid, satisfying and skillfully plotted, with a cast of wholly believable characters. As the tension mounts, NATURAL FLIGHTS really takes off. At its helm, Morrall comes into her own; steering a shuddering, febrile last chapter into an elegant denouement. ( The Times )
Descrizione del libro
The wise, warm story of a woman negotiating her way through life without realising she doesn't understand the rules of the game, by the Booker-shortlisted author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour
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