The Offering
$39.27
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2015
Summary
It was the year when Madeline’s family moved to an island her father believed God had guided him to.
It was a place where she revelled in the natural beauty of their surroundings. It was a time of euphoria, but also of successive disasters. It was the night Madeline turned fourteen, when she did something she thought would save her beloved mother. Something so traumatic that she cannot now recall it, but her suave new psychiatrist thinks he knows how…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444770025 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444770020 |
| Author: | Grace McCleen |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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Extraordinary…Wonderfully suspenseful and deeply moving, The Offering is full of insights about the nature of madness. It is also keenly observant of the ways in which men play God and the power of the oppressed imagination to create an inhabitable world, even under near-intolerable conditions. - John Burnside, Guardian
That McCleen is a writer of exceptional gifts is beyond doubt. Her prose can soar in moments of breathtaking beauty, most particularly when she turns a poet’s eye on the landscape…she writes equally viscerally about her narrator’s emotional terrain, depicting claustrophobia, shame and terror so painfully it makes your skin itch. - Stephanie Merritt, ObserverStrange and beautiful - Hope Whitmore, Independent on SundayGrace McCleen’s talent for description, especially when portraying the natural world, is quite exquisite - Carol Midgley, The TimesThe richness with which Madeline describes her febrile younger self contrasts heartbreakingly with the glassy, emotionally neutered life she inhabits now…a bold, mature, terribly sad novel. - Claire Allfree, Daily MailImpressive, a plausible and moving account of mental illness. - Sam Kitchener, Daily TelegraphCaptures the intensity of teenage anguish, and expresses a terrifying estimation of its implications, but it also dares to suggest that God can never be removed from the equation and asks: What is God? - Max Liu, IndependentThere is an eerie sense of foreboding in Grace McCleen’s wonderful third novel…Terrific and terrifying. - Psychologies (Book of the Month)About The Author
Grace McCleen
Grace McCleen’s first novel, The Land of Decoration, was published in 2012 and was awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize for the best first novel of the year. It was also chosen for Richard & Judy’s Book Club and won her the Betty Trask Prize in 2013. Her second novel, The Professor of Poetry, was published by Sceptre in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Encore Award. She read English at the University of Oxford and has an MA from York, and currently lives in London.
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