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Lullaby Beach Stella Duffy

Lullaby Beach By Stella Duffy

Lullaby Beach by Stella Duffy

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Summary

A compelling novel about family secrets and the legacy of trauma, set against the changing fortunes of an English seaside town, from award-winning writer Stella Duffy.

Lullaby Beach Summary

Lullaby Beach: 'A PORTRAIT OF SISTERHOOD ... POWERFUL, WISE, CELEBRATORY' Daily Mail by Stella Duffy

'A PORTRAIT OF SISTERHOOD ... POWERFUL' Daily Mail

A compelling novel about family secrets and the legacy of trauma, set against the changing fortunes of an English seaside town, from award-winning writer Stella Duffy.

When Lucy discovers the body of her great aunt Kitty, with a puzzling note and empty pill bottles by her bed, she can't believe that the formidable woman who held her family together is gone - or understand why she has taken her own life.

Lucy is determined to decipher Kitty's final message. What she finds will overturn everything she thought she knew about her family.

'Whether it's down to the sure rhythm of Duffy's faultless storytelling or the faded backdrop of the south coast of England, her latest novel is a comforting tale despite some gritty subject matter ... Wise, generous and atmospheric' OBSERVER

'Lullaby Beach explores familial legacy, generational secrets and the effects of long-lasting trauma with a distinct tenderness' NEW STATESMAN

'A writer who never lets you down' ALI SMITH

Lullaby Beach Reviews

Duffy is a fearless writer ... A portrait of sisterhood in the wider sense - one that's as powerful and gritty as it is wise and celebratory -- Stephanie Cross * DAILY MAIL *
Lullaby Beach explores familial legacy, generational secrets and the effects of long-lasting trauma with a distinct tenderness * New Statesman *
Whether it's down to the sure rhythm of Duffy's faultless storytelling or the faded backdrop of the south coast of England, her latest novel is a comforting tale despite some gritty subject matter. It opens as eighty-something Kitty takes her own life, leaving behind not just a gaping hole in the world of her two great-nieces, but a mystery, too. Four dates contained in a note seem to hold the key, concealing secrets that bind three generations of Beth and Sara's family. Wise, generous and atmospheric -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer *

A suicide in a sleepy English seaside town exposes family secrets that have lain dormant for three generations in this
atmospheric novel . . . The action is set in the present day and the 1950s. We meet Kitty as an idealistic young girl keen to escape the monotony of her small-minded seaside existence. She elopes with an unsuitable man and starts a new life in London. But it doesn't quite match up to her expectations and she comes running back home, licking her wounds. The narrative masterfully interweaves her story with that of other women in her family, leading to a dramatic finale

* The Lady *
A writer who never lets you down * ALI SMITH *
First class * MARCEL BERLINS, THE TIMES *
Sharp insights and sharper wit * DAILY MAIL *
A powerful talent * GUARDIAN *
Nobody turns the screw of tension tighter than Stella Duffy * VAL MCDERMID *
Duffy writes with a judicious combination of power and subtlety * SUNDAY TIMES *
A versatile and gifted novelist * LAURA LIPPMAN *

About Stella Duffy

Stella Duffy has written seventeen novels, over seventy short stories, and fifteen plays. She has twice won Stonewall Writer of the Year and twice won the CWA Short Story Dagger. Annapurna have optioned her novel The Hidden Room for television. In addition to her writing work, Stella is a theatre-maker and the co-founder of the national Fun Palaces campaign for greater access to culture for all. She was awarded an OBE in 2016 for her services to the Arts. Her website is www.stelladuffy.wordpress.com.

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Lullaby Beach: 'A PORTRAIT OF SISTERHOOD ... POWERFUL, WISE, CELEBRATORY' Daily Mail by Stella Duffy
Stella Duffy
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
2022-02-03
256
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