After a brilliant career in ceramics spent making things and breaking things, now it is Jay herself who has cracked. Recovering from a breakdown, she and her husband Simon move to the desolate edges of the Yorkshire moors, where they find and fall in love with the Two Houses: a crumbling Victorian property whose central rooms were supposedly so haunted that a previous owner had them cut out from the building entirely.
But on uprooting their city life and moving to the tiny grey village of Hestle, Jay and Simon discover it's not only the Two Houses that seems to be haunted by an obscure past. It soon becomes increasingly clear that the villagers don't want them there at all - and when building work to make the two houses whole again starts, a discovery is made that will unearth decades-old secrets . . .
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Superbly written and utterly gripping * Daily Mail * Atmospheric with a wonderful cast of characters that prove the depth of Cooper's empathy and talent. Eerie, evocative and captivating, the tension is built masterfully and keeps you guessing as a city couple try to unearth the secrets of an isolated community. The writing is blindingly good. A total triumph. -- Tor Udall You'll find yourselves gripping the book as you race towards the thrilling finale * East London Guardian * Fran's brilliance lies in her ability to explore the everyday - the seemingly unremarkable lives of individuals. To burrow behind the opposing, uplifting, unpleasant, defiant thoughts of her characters and glimpse the world from a different point of view * The Pool * Atmospheric * Woman's Weekly * Confident and brilliant -- Lisa O'Donnell on THESE DIVIDING WALLS Beautifully written -- Nina Pottell on THESE DIVIDING WALLS
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Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 232 mm
Breite: 154 mm
Dicke: 26 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4736-4158-7 (9781473641587)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Fran Cooper grew up in London before reading English at Cambridge and Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She spent three years in Paris writing a PhD about travelling eighteenth-century artists, and currently works in the curatorial department of a London museum.
