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Exposure

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Informationen zum Autor Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children’s author and poet who will be remembered for the depth and breadth of her fiction. Rich and intricate, yet narrated with a deceptive simplicity that made all of her work accessible and heartfelt, her writing stood out for the fluidity and lyricism of her prose, and her extraordinary ability to capture the presence of the past. Her first novel, Zennor in Darkness , explored the events which led D. H. Lawrence to be expelled from Cornwall on suspicion of spying, and won the McKitterick Prize. Her third novel, A Spell of Winter , won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996, and she went on to become a Sunday Times bestseller with The Siege , which was described by Antony Beevor as a ‘world-class novel’ and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Orange Prize. Published in 2010, her eleventh novel, The Betrayal , was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and The Lie in 2014 was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her final novel, Birdcage Walk , deals with legacy and recognition – what writers, especially women writers, can expect to leave behind them – and was described by the Observer as ‘the finest novel Helen Dunmore has written’. She died in June 2017, and in January 2018, she was posthumously awarded the Costa Prize for her volume of poetry, Inside the Wave. Klappentext A new novel from the author of "The Lie" and "The Betrayal". Set in London in 1960, it follows Lily, the wife of Simon, who is accused of passing information to the Soviets. With themes of forbidden love, intimate betrayal and the power of exposure. Now in paperback. Zusammenfassung ______________________________ 'A deceptively simple masterpiece' Independent on Sunday 'Will haunt you for months, if not years' Guardian 'Outstanding ... if you only buy one book, make it this one' Good Housekeeping The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbour, colleague or lover. At the end of a suburban garden, in the pouring rain, a woman buries a briefcase deep in the earth. She believes that she is protecting her family. What she will learn is that no one is immune from betrayal or the devastating consequences of exposure. ...

Product details

Authors Helen Dunmore
Publisher Windmill Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 30.09.2016
 
EAN 9780099559290
ISBN 978-0-09-955929-0
No. of pages 400
Dimensions 128 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

London, Greater London, FICTION / Family Life / General, Espionage & spy thriller, FICTION / Thrillers / Political, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, c 1960 to c 1970, Fiction: general and literary, Espionage and spy thriller, c 1960 to c 1969, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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