Like Bees to Honey

Informationen zum Autor CAROLINE SMAILES lives in the North West of England with her husband and three children. The Drowning of Arthur Braxton is her fifth novel. She can be found at www.carolinesmailes.co.uk and twitter.com/Caroline_S Klappentext A magical story of family! redemption! and ghosts! set in Malta and told with sensual! evocative prose Nina! her son Christopher in tow! flies to Malta for one last attempt to make peace with her aging parents. Her previous visit ended in tears--disowned for becoming pregnant while at university in England! she was not allowed into the house. But Malta holds more secrets and surprises than Nina could possibly imagine. What she finds is not the land of her youth! a place full of memories and happiness--instead she meets dead people! and lots of them. Malta! it transpires! is a transit lounge for recently deceased spirits! and somehow Christopher enables her to see them! speak with them! and help them. In return! they help Nina come to terms with a loss so great that she has yet to admit it to herself.

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'Will Self and Caroline Smailes are arch-experimentalists' OBSERVER

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Smailes, Smailes Caroline
• Publisher: The Friday Project
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.05.2010
• EAN: 9780007356362
• ISBN: 978-0-00-735636-2
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Malta, FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Autobiography: general, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Lancashire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Memoirs, FICTION / Romance / Multicultural & Interracial, Travel writing, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, Local & family history, nostalgia, True stories of discovery, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Autobiography: adventurers & explorers, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Family;Love