Zennor in Darkness
From the Women’s Prize-Winning Author of A Spell of Winter
$25.70
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2021
Summary
It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor, and the young artist Clare Coyne is waking up to the world. Ignoring the whispers from her neighbours, she has struck a rare friendship with D.H. Lawrence and his German wife, who are hoping to escape the war-fever of London. In between painting and visits to her new friends she whiles away the warm days with her cousin John, who is on leave from the trenches, harbouring secrets she couldn’t begin to understand.
But as the he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241988558 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241988551 |
| Author: | Helen Dunmore |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 127mm x 20mm |
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Highly original and beautifully written
Highly original and beautifully written * Sunday Telegraph *Electrifying … Helen Dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen * Daily Mail *Deceit gives Helen Dunmore’s novel a jagged edge. Secrets, unspoken words, lies that have the truth wrapped up in them somewhere make Dunmore’s stories ripples with menace and suspense * Sunday Times *We believe in Clare’s intelligence, talent and passion. A triumph * Independent on Sunday *
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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