Constance and Faith - Brossura

Routledge, Victoria

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743415205 ISBN 13: 9780743415200

Casa editrice: Pocket Books, 2005

Riassunto

Hannah Marshall never thought she'd return to her west coast hometown of Linton, riddled with exhausted coal mines and permanently overhung with rain clouds. Her degree and her job in an international auction house were her ticket out of Linton's faded Georgian splendour, and she escaped gladly. But now, ten years later, Hannah is back, for reasons she won't discuss, to find little seems to have changed. It's still rainy, her mother Fran is still fighting social injustice, and her bewitching grandmother Dora is still ruling the circle of ladies who dominate the town. Seeing Linton through an adult's eyes, Hannah begins to make out a complicated web of old grudges and secrets - and the definite air of scandal that surrounds her turbulent family. What is Dora's real connection with the rich Musgrave sisters, who brought her up in the big villa next door? Why does she refuse to discuss her childhood? And why is Fran so desperate to know? As Hannah faces up to her own demons, she's forced to dig into the family's past and confront the hidden truths that haunt her family and Linton itself.

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L'autore

Victoria Routledge worked in publishing for three years before her first novel, FRIENDS LIKE THESE, was published. She is twenty-six and writes full time as a novelist and a journalist. She was born in the Lake District and now lives in London. She is the author of FRIENDS LIKE THESE and KISS HIM GOODBYE and ...AND FOR STARTERS.

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Hannah Marshall never thought she'd return to Linton, a Cumbrian town riddled with exhausted coal mines and permanently overhung with rain clouds.
Ten years later, seeking refuge from a jilted love affair, she finds that little has changed. The rain pours ceaselessly, her mother is still railing against the injustices of the world, and her bewitching grandmother Dora and her circle of fearsome matriarchs continue to rule the town.
But now, seeing through adult eyes, Hannah begins to understand the web of grudges and old secrets that have ensnared her hometown - and the unspoken scandal that surrounds her turbulent family.
As she faces up to her own demons, she's forced to confront the past, and the hidden truths that have scarred her life, her family and the very town itself.
'A fat, plot-rich novel... a diverting fable about daring to look back' DAILY MAIL
'A beautifully woven tale of tangled lives and dark family secrets. It's our book of the year so far' COMPANY

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• Editore: Pocket Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743415205
• ISBN 13: 9780743415200
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496