
Sing Me Who You Are
Elizabeth Berridge(Author)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 30. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-0-571-24656-4 (ISBN)
Description
An overloaded car grinds up a rutted lane, a luggage rack on top, boxes tied here and there, a cat looking out of the window. Harriet Cooper, thirtyish, awkward and vulnerable, is coming to claim her aunt's inheritance, a tumbledown bus. Cousin Magda has already been left the land, the farm and the house, and does not altogether welcome Harriet; her husband Greg, however, is delighted to see her.
But there is another unseen presence in the house, which haunts all three. Scrubbs was the man with whom both Harriet and Magda fell in love, whose internment in a Japanese POW camp and subsequent death is, for Greg, an uncomfortable and menacing memory that one day must be exorcised ...
'Skill subtlety and stylistic assurance ... her moral comedy illuminates life.' Daily Telegraph
But there is another unseen presence in the house, which haunts all three. Scrubbs was the man with whom both Harriet and Magda fell in love, whose internment in a Japanese POW camp and subsequent death is, for Greg, an uncomfortable and menacing memory that one day must be exorcised ...
'Skill subtlety and stylistic assurance ... her moral comedy illuminates life.' Daily Telegraph
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 135 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
276 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-24656-4 (9780571246564)
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Person
Elizabeth Berridge is the author of numerous novels, including Across the Common and Upon Several Occasions, both serialised by the BBC.
She has been a journalist, broadcaster, critic and publisher. Married with two grown-up children, she lives in London.
She has been a journalist, broadcaster, critic and publisher. Married with two grown-up children, she lives in London.