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The Devil's Music Jane Rusbridge

The Devil's Music von Jane Rusbridge

The Devil's Music Jane Rusbridge


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Zusammenfassung

Presents a haunting, lyrical story of love, betrayal, and family secrets buried in the shifting landscape of memory.

The Devil's Music Zusammenfassung

The Devil's Music Jane Rusbridge

It is 1958 and the Sputnik satellite has taken a dog up into space; back on earth, five-year-old Andy has a new sister, Elaine - a baby who, his father insists, is 'not quite all there'. While his parents argue over whether or not to send Elaine away, Andy sleeps beside her cot each night, keeping guard and watching as his mother - once an ambitious, energetic nurse - twists away into her private, suffocating sadness. Knots keep treasures safe, Andy's rope-maker grandfather tells him, and, as he listens to stories of the great Harry Houdini, Andy learns the Carrick Bend, the Midshipman's Hitch and the Monkey's Fist. Then a young painter, hired to decorate the family's house, seems to call Andy's mother back from the grief in which she is lost. But one day, at The Siding - the old railway carriage that serves as the family's seaside retreat - Andy is left in charge of his baby sister on a wind-chopped beach, where he discovers that not all treasures can be kept safe for ever. Three decades later Andrew returns from self-imposed exile to The Siding, the place where his life first unravelled. Looking back on the broken strands of his childhood, he tries, at last, to weave them together, aided by his grandfather's copy of The Ashley Book of Knots and the arrival of a wild-haired, tango-dancing sculptor - a woman with her own ideas about making peace with the past. LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2011

The Devil's Music Bewertungen

'This intricately structured, brilliantly observed modern take on a family saga is both passionate and moving and the prose snaps, crackles and pops with gorgeous detail' Lesley Glaister 'A powerful and deeply affecting story of the bond between a mother and her children ... Jane Rusbridge is a brilliant new voice' Alison Macleod 'Jane Rusbridge has a gift for evoking both characters and place ... Sensuously written and beautifully woven together, the various strands of the story converge in a heartrending - and heartwarming - climax' Kathy Page 'Beautifully written and a real page turner' Essentials

Über Jane Rusbridge

Jane Rusbridge lives on the coast in West Sussex with her husband, a farmer, and three of their five children. She taught at primary and preschool levels before returning to education herself as a mature student to study English at Chichester University, where she went on to gain an MA in Creative Writing. For the past ten years she has worked at Chichester University as an Associate Lecturer in English.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR002479556
9781408801017
1408801019
The Devil's Music Jane Rusbridge
Gebraucht - Gut
Broschiert
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2010-04-19
320
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