The Falling Thread
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2021
272 pages
978-1-5266-4511-1 (ISBN)
Description
'Exquisite' Financial Times
'Funny and moving, full of surprises and challenging ideas' Times Literary Supplement
'Deeply satisfying' Guardian
'O'Riordan imbues his narrative with an acutely modern awareness of power and capitalism' The Times
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Manchester, the summer of 1890. A city humming with industry and gleaming with affluence.
But for Charles, cloistered in his middle-class parents' suburban villa on holiday from university, the city's vibrancy holds no charms. Bored and a little listless, he spends the summer in pursuit of his little sisters' governess, Hettie. Before the summer's end, both must face the consequences of their affair - consequences they will live with for the rest of their lives.
Charles's sisters come of age as women of the new century - and experience a very different Manchester from their brother and guardian. In the smog and glitter of the city, both sisters will discover the very different things they seek, and the very different women they will become. But as a new era springs into being, a darker shadow stretches, threatening to engulf the whole world...
A captivating portrait of a family in time, The Falling Thread is a hauntingly evocative debut novel from one of our most exciting literary talents.
'Funny and moving, full of surprises and challenging ideas' Times Literary Supplement
'Deeply satisfying' Guardian
'O'Riordan imbues his narrative with an acutely modern awareness of power and capitalism' The Times
__________________
Manchester, the summer of 1890. A city humming with industry and gleaming with affluence.
But for Charles, cloistered in his middle-class parents' suburban villa on holiday from university, the city's vibrancy holds no charms. Bored and a little listless, he spends the summer in pursuit of his little sisters' governess, Hettie. Before the summer's end, both must face the consequences of their affair - consequences they will live with for the rest of their lives.
Charles's sisters come of age as women of the new century - and experience a very different Manchester from their brother and guardian. In the smog and glitter of the city, both sisters will discover the very different things they seek, and the very different women they will become. But as a new era springs into being, a darker shadow stretches, threatening to engulf the whole world...
A captivating portrait of a family in time, The Falling Thread is a hauntingly evocative debut novel from one of our most exciting literary talents.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-4511-1 (9781526645111)
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Adam O'Riordan is the author of two collections of poems In the Flesh and A Herring Famine and the short story collection The Burning Ground. He grew up in Manchester and later read English at Oxford, winning scholarships to do a Masters and PhD with Professor Andrew Motion at the University of London. After working in publishing for several years, he was appointed Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2008 and a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. Until 2019 he was Academic Director of Manchester Writing School and Programme Leader for the Creative Writing MA/MFA.
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Content
- Cover
- 1890
- August
- September
- December
- 1905
- February
- April
- October
- 1913
- July
- August
- November
- Acknowledgements
- A note on the type
