Trick Of The Light
$26.93
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
10 March 1997
Summary
A young couple abandon the urban jungle of London’s East End for a remote, mountainous corner of Washington State. Chosen by Mick, who is half-American, the place seems as alien as the moon to Rita. But she soon adjusts to raising their small daughter, Frances, in a broken-down cabin without electricity or water, and revels in the untamed beauty of their surroundings. She’s scared, though, of the wild animals howling and screeching outside by night. What she cannot admit is her fear of Mick’s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340653838 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340653833 |
| Author: | Jill Dawson |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 10 March 1997 |
| Weight: | 185g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
‘The novel held me right to the end. I was constantly interested in Rita and her dilemma and held by the evocation of place’
Excellent a moving, beautifully written tale - The Times
The novel held me right to the end. I was constantly interested in Rita and her dilemma and held by the evocation of place - Margaret ForsterTaut with narrative tension and memorable for its superb descriptions of landscape and a multitude of deft touches that always seem just right. Above all, this is a genuinely romantic novel, a double love story of love that is raw and raunchy as well as romantic - The TimesA taut, compelling story that quells any easy theories about abusive relationships - Times Literary SupplementA brave and necessary novel - Daily TelegraphExplores a destructive relationship with vivid and compelling precision - Jane RogersI loved it. To carry such threat, such danger and at the same time produce a narrative which is such a joy to read is miraculous - E A MarkhamAbout The Author
Jill Dawson
Jill Dawson is also the author of Magpie and Fred and Edie, which was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, the editor of The Virago Book of Wicked Verse and the co-editor with Margo Daly of Wild Ways: New Stories about Women on the Road, all published by Sceptre. She was the British Council Fellow at Amherst College, Massachusetts in l997 and is currently the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia. She lives in the Fens with her partner and two sons.
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