Swimming Lessons
Autor Claire Fulleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2018
The second novel from the author ofOur Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and was a 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.
'Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below.'
Gil's wife, Ingrid has been missing, presumed drowned, for twelve years.
A possible sighting brings their children, Nan and Flora, home. Together they begin to confront the mystery of their mother. Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil's books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children?
'Thrilling, transporting, delicately realised and held together by a sophisticated sense of suspense...more than matches the power of Fuller's debut... Powerful, pleasing and pleasurable.'Sunday Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241976371
ISBN-10: 0241976375
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241976375
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Claire
Fullerwas
born
in
Oxfordshire,
England,
in
1967.
She
gained
a
degree
in
sculpture
from
Winchester
School
of
Art,
but
went
on
to
have
a
long
career
in
marketing
and
didn't
start
writing
until
she
was
forty.
Her
first
novel,Our
Endless
Numbered
Days,
won
the
Desmond
Elliott
Prize.
She
has
an
MA
in
Creative
and
Critical
Writing
from
the
University
of
Winchester
and
lives
in
Hampshire
with
her
husband
and
two
children.
Recenzii
Thrilling,transporting,delicately
realisedand
held
together
bya
sophisticated
sense
of
suspense.
.
.more
than
matches
the
power
of
Fuller's
debut.
.
.Powerful,pleasingandpleasurable.
Acompelling portraitof acomplicated, unconventional marriage, and offlawed humanity, with all itssecrets,silencesanddeceits.Excellent.
It's thesharp eye for detail, sometimes bizarre, thatmakes her writing stand out. . . A storysuffusedwith thepoignancy of miscommunicationbetween people who love each other, of thethings we can never really know.
Claire Fuller hascaptured love in its fullest form, nursed onbetrayalandregretandguilt. . .Swimming Lessonsisso smoothly,beautifully written, and the human failures here areheartbreaking.
Bewitchingandpage-turning. . . anextraordinarily smartandsatisfying read.
WithSwimming Lessons, Fuller confirms herself asa writer of emotional depth, technical skillandsensitive plotting. . . What Fullerevokes beautifullyare thecomplicated dynamics between fathers and daughters, sisters, lovers, friends
Adeeply movingread, witha mystery that keeps you turning pages
Evocative,immersive
Extraordinary...From the opening sentence it isgripping...Fuller writes witha singing simplicitythat findsbeautyamid theterror...might well have you crying out for more.
Bewitching...arivetingly darktale...spellbinding.
Fuller handles the tensionmasterfullyin thisgrown-up thriller of a fairytale, full ofclues,questionsandintrigue.
Fuller'stwisted taleiscompulsive, treading the fine line betweencharmingandsinister. With itsdisturbing twist,Our Endless Numbered Dayscould well become a classic.
Rewardingly unsettling...as warped and sinister as any Brothers Grimm fairytale, thistautly written, tense novel isbrilliant at evokingboth thebewitching beautyof its setting - and its inherent dangers...haunting,suspensefulanddeftly written...memorably chilling.
A debut novel that brings to mind such unlikely bedfellows asThoreau'sWaldenandEmma Donoghue'sRoom...gripping.
Acompelling portraitof acomplicated, unconventional marriage, and offlawed humanity, with all itssecrets,silencesanddeceits.Excellent.
It's thesharp eye for detail, sometimes bizarre, thatmakes her writing stand out. . . A storysuffusedwith thepoignancy of miscommunicationbetween people who love each other, of thethings we can never really know.
Claire Fuller hascaptured love in its fullest form, nursed onbetrayalandregretandguilt. . .Swimming Lessonsisso smoothly,beautifully written, and the human failures here areheartbreaking.
Bewitchingandpage-turning. . . anextraordinarily smartandsatisfying read.
WithSwimming Lessons, Fuller confirms herself asa writer of emotional depth, technical skillandsensitive plotting. . . What Fullerevokes beautifullyare thecomplicated dynamics between fathers and daughters, sisters, lovers, friends
Adeeply movingread, witha mystery that keeps you turning pages
Evocative,immersive
Extraordinary...From the opening sentence it isgripping...Fuller writes witha singing simplicitythat findsbeautyamid theterror...might well have you crying out for more.
Bewitching...arivetingly darktale...spellbinding.
Fuller handles the tensionmasterfullyin thisgrown-up thriller of a fairytale, full ofclues,questionsandintrigue.
Fuller'stwisted taleiscompulsive, treading the fine line betweencharmingandsinister. With itsdisturbing twist,Our Endless Numbered Dayscould well become a classic.
Rewardingly unsettling...as warped and sinister as any Brothers Grimm fairytale, thistautly written, tense novel isbrilliant at evokingboth thebewitching beautyof its setting - and its inherent dangers...haunting,suspensefulanddeftly written...memorably chilling.
A debut novel that brings to mind such unlikely bedfellows asThoreau'sWaldenandEmma Donoghue'sRoom...gripping.