Weathering - Brossura

Wood, Lucy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1408840952 ISBN 13: 9781408840955

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2016

Riassunto

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2016

Pearl doesn't know how she's ended up in the river - the same messy, cacophonous river in the same rain-soaked valley she'd been stuck in for years. Or why, for that matter, she'd been stupid enough to fall down those rickety stairs.

Ada, Pearl's daughter, doesn't know how she's ended up back in the house she left thirteen years ago - with no heating apart from a fire she can't light, no way of getting around apart from an old car she's scared to drive, and no company apart from echoing footsteps on the damp floorboards. With her daughter Pepper, she starts to sort through Pearl's things, clearing the house so she can leave and not look back. Pepper has grown used to following her restless mother from place to place, but this house, with its faded photographs, its boxes of cameras and its stuffed jackdaw, is something new. Fascinated by the scattering of people she meets, by the river that unfurls through the valley, and by the strange old woman who sits on the bank with her feet in the cold, coppery water, Pepper doesn't know why anyone would ever want to leave.

As the first frosts of autumn herald the coming of a long winter and Pepper and Ada find themselves irresistibly entangled with the life of the valley, each will discover the ways that places can take root inside us and bind us together.

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Recensione:

Deeply poetic; dreamy and thought-provoking (Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat)

An emotionally mature consideration of generational love, loss and change (Michèle Roberts, author of Daughters of the House)

Wood beautifully renders a landscape by turns rain-soaked and snow-laden, using it to suffuse her debut novel with a tense atmosphere of impending disaster. The author has a gift for capturing how humans are bound to and moulded by places (Sunday Times)

Five stars . Wood has created a work as intricately detailed as one of the delicate pieces of jewellery that Pearl used to restore . Wood is a creator of worlds. This sodden river valley is one to savour (Daily Telegraph)

A beautifully observed study of mothers and daughters, loss and recovery, that never puts a foot wrong (Sarah Waters, Guardian, Best Reads of 2015)

Prize-winning Lucy Wood's Diving Belles and Other Stories introduced a lyrical and distinctive voice and received rave reviews. Weathering, her first novel, weaves ever deeper connections between myth, fantasy and the everyday (Daily Mail)

Beautiful . The river and the house are wonderfully drawn and the voices of the characters, unforgettable (The Times)

No bald description of Wood's extraordinary novel can do justice to its lyrical prose and bold storytelling. An imaginative tour de force (Mail on Sunday)

Weathering is a beautiful novel on every level. Firstly in the writing with Wood's clear and wonderfully descriptive prose. I swear I felt shivery when reading about the cold damp house . A joy to read, the story strikes a chord, not just because of the relationships between the women, but for anyone who has ever escaped a small town, only to find themselves inexplicably pulled back **** (Stylist)

Wood's novel manages to bring inventive descriptions to the universal . The mother-daughter relationships are brilliantly described . Pepper brings light to the narrative, with dialogue that is convincing and funny (Irish Times)

Descrizione del libro:

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Diving Belles: a beautifully bewitching novel of memories, mothers, ghosts and daughters

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2016

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1408840952
• ISBN 13: 9781408840955
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304