Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore - ISBN: 9780141033594
Paperback
Sisters bound by tragedy, tested by love, haunted by the past.

Talking to the Dead

  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    30 January 2008

Summary

Reissued alongside A Spell of Winter and Zennor in Darkness in a stunning new paperback package to appeal to a wide new audience.

There’s nothing closer than sisters…

Unloved by their distant mother, Isabel and Nina cemented their bond in childhood when tragedy struck the family. Many years later, with the difficult birth of Isabel’s first child, it is Nina who comes to stay and help out her older sister. But Nina has other, important reasons for being under …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141033594
ISBN-10:0141033592
Author:Helen Dunmore
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:30 January 2008
Weight:161g
Dimensions:199mm x 133mm x 14mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Thrilling…a book to read in one enthralled sitting

Thrilling…a book to read in one enthralled sitting The Times Helen Dunmore is a writer of quiet, deadly power…this is taut, committed writing at its best, and it takes about two paragraphs to hook you. Don’t resist Daily Mail Talking to the Dead flies off the page, startling the reader with its brilliance Financial Times This is a memorable and assured work Sunday Times

About The Author

Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children’s author and poet. She published twelve novels including Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She was posthumously awarded the Costa 2017 prize for her poetry collection Inside the Wave.

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