Leaving Lucy Pear
$18.77
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2017
Summary
‘Stunning language, raw emotion and profound wisdom’ - Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You
‘Solomon’s strong prose and fleet pacing consistently provide the essential pleasures of a good story well told’ - Maggie Shipstead, The New York Times Book Review
One night in 1917, Beatrice Haven creeps out of her uncle’s house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. She leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree and watches as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349134475 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349134472 |
| Author: | Anna Solomon |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Blackfriars |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
LEAVING LUCY PEAR is that rare combination of stunning language, raw emotion, and profound wisdom that catches you up and wrings you out and yet somehow leaves you fuller than when you began - Celeste Ng
Solomon is an enormously gifted writer, and her penetrating tale will linger in your mind long after the last page has turned - Paula McLainFrom the first page, I was under the spell of Anna Solomon’s emotionally engaging novel about the devastating choices we make and the unexpected consequences they bring - Sue Monk KiddAnna Solomon writes with a poet’s reverence for language and a novelist’s ability to keep us turning the page. LEAVING LUCY PEAR is a gorgeous and engrossing meditation on motherhood, womanhood, and the sacrifices we make for love - J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Maine and The EngagementsA marvel of a novel, bursting with intelligence, insight, compassion, and truth. Anna Solomon is an extraordinarily gifted storyteller - Robin Black, author of Life DrawingAnna Solomon
Anna Solomon is the author of The Little Bride and a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, One Story, Ploughshares, Slate and MORE. Co-editor with Eleanor Henderson of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers, Solomon previously worked as a journalist for National Public Radio. She was born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.
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