Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
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.A marvellous novel about forbidden passions
Daily Mail
An intensely gripping book...written so seductively that some passages sing out from the page, like music for the eyes
Sunday Times
A hugely involving story which often stops you in your tracks with the beauty of its writing
Observer
An electrifying and original talent, a writer whose style is characterized by a lyrical, dreamy intensity
Guardian