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| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| ISBN 13 | 9780099509844 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099509849 |
| Book Description | In this, the tenth Simon Serrailler crime novel, Simon must engage with his own demons as Lafferton struggles to cope with a series of crimes that threaten the sanctity of hearth and home. |
| Editorial Review | A triumph. Read it at once * * The Times * * In lucid prose and perfectly measured strides, Grenville lays down her riveting tale. A novel aglow with empathy, its author's capacious visions still deliver an elemental thrill * * Daily Mail * * A beautifully uplifting piece of fiction * * Independent * * An original, inviting tale * * Daily Telegraph * * Genuinely affecting * * Financial Times * * Grenville's prose is clear and clean, employing a gently leading storytelling style that is especially welcome with a foreign land and a foreign time . . . Grenville has brought imagination and compassion to the source of so much of Australia's retroactive hand-wringing. What distinguishes her portrayal of Aboriginal culture is that for once appreciation, sympathy and admiration get the better of impotent guilt -- Lionel Shriver * * Daily Telegraph * * Grenville inhabits characters with a rare completeness . . . writes with a poet's sense of rhythm and imagery . . . [and] explores the natural rifts that arise between settlers and native people with a deep understanding of the ambiguities inherent in such conflicts -- Jay Parini * * Guardian * * A deft historical tale of discovery . . . [Dawes'] qualities shine lambently through Grenville's elegantly calibrated prose . . . The lasting impression of her novel is not of drama, but of a lovely, watchful stillness: a sort of astronomy of the human heart * * Sunday Telegraph * * A compelling narrative . . . An intelligent, spare, always engrossing imagining of first contact, in which the fictionalisation of history allows a comment about current postcolonial race relationships which escapes the didacticism of special pleading * * Times Literary Supplement * * In this novel, morally troubling issues of exploitation and hypocrisy carry reverberations well beyond the convincingly portrayed historical moment * * Sunday Telegraph * * |
| About the Author | Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children's author and poet. She published twelve novels including Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She was posthumously awarded the Costa 2017 prize for her poetry collection Inside the Wave. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Jenny Tomlin |
| Publication Date | 11-Aug-09 |
| Number of Pages | 320 |
Send Me No Flowers : A Story Of Terror , Heartbreak And Abuse paperback english - 11-Aug-09
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