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 |
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| 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 |
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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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