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Zusatztext 'Exquisitely written … once read, not easily forgotten'  Fay Weldon  'Tearne charts the patterns of love and loss with beautiful prose' Sunday Times 'Tearne brings her skills as a painter to her writing' Sunday Telegraph  'Tearne is brilliant on first love, sibling rivalry and that long hot summer of adolescence that we all remember before we had to put away childish things. By the final chapters, tension grips like a vice, and you’re still reading at 3am' The Independent  '[Tearne] has a wonderful ability to create atmosphere' The Times  'Absorbed me right up to the final page… Beautifully written and difficult to stop thinking about' Jo Brand  'A beautifully written, evocative tale that explores sibling rivalry, guilt, and the complexities of familial love' Neverimitate  'An engaging and atmospheric page-turner' Bailieborough Library Reading Group 'An exquisite writer and captivating storyteller' Aminatta Forna Informationen zum Autor Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan-born novelist and filmmaker whose books include "BoneChina" and "Mosquito." She has been short-listed for the Costa, the Kirimaya, and "Los AngelesTimes" Book Prize and long-listed for the Orange Prize and the Asian Man Booker." Klappentext Set against the backdrop of WWII, a gripping drama of dark family secrets in rural England from the author of 'Brixton Beach', 'Bone China' and 'Mosquito'. Vorwort Advance reading copies available to reviewers and stores. Reading group guide available. Media mailing of advance reading copies to a wide range of book reviewers at national and local media, including trade journals, newspapers, magazines, websites, zones, literary blogs, magazines and newspapers. Social media campaign - online giveaways, competition and e-mail campaign Promotion through: www.aardvarkbureau.com Twitter and Facebook promotion to include contests and giveaway. Co-op available Leseprobe MONDAY AUGUST 14th 1939. It began in silence.‘Cecily!’By midday the fields were stalked by a ferocious heat.‘Cecily!’Silence.‘Oh for goodness’ sake, C. Hurry up!’Cecily Maudsley, rising with a start, threw off her bedclothes and flung open the bedroom door. Her mother Agnes stood waiting at the foot of the stairs with a box of strawberries and an exasperated expression on her upturned face as if she had been calling for an eternity. Behind her through the open door was the tunnelling green light of high summer. How deep the summer had bitten into the land that last August, how cruelly it had burnt into earth and grass and air. What had started out as a pastel and water-faded spring became unexpectedly a splintering, shimmering thing. All it took was a spark to cause the fire. Why had no one noticed? Their clothes became thinner and more transparent, their legs browner. Their mother Agnes, long hair swept up, slender neck in view, was worked off her feet. There was always so much work to be done in the orchard for everything seemed to ripen at once. Blackcurrants, raspberries, damsons and plums, all needing picking, not forgetting the season’s first eating apples, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Their father Selwyn was kept busy in the top field or in the cowshed or mending the tractor. While Rose washed her dazzling blonde hair again and again or listened all day to the wireless playing jazz. ‘Dancing’s what’s done it,’ Aunt Kitty had declared, referring to a tear in Rose’s stockings. Disapproval was the constant ball Aunt Kitty used to bounce, 11 hoping someone would bounce it back to her. But Agnes was far too busy getting ready for the tennis party and the harvest to bother. And besides, Rose was born to dance. Cecily and Rose were still sharing a bedroom bec...

Product details

• Authors: Tearne, Roma Tearne, Tearne Roma
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781910709306
• ISBN: 978-1-910709-30-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Literary