The Mermaid Chair - Hardcover
Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island she grew up on to establish why her mother has been behaving oddly, she is to find a lot more than she came looking for. A loving, exuberant character, who believes herself to be happy, she has forgotten a hidden part of her spirit - the part represented by the beautiful, vibrant and legendary mermaid carved on a chair in the island's monastery. When Jessie falls passionately in love with a monk who is close to taking his final vows, she discovers a place in herself that she had never previously imagined could exist. THE MERMAID CHAIR is the story of a woman trying to save her outgrown life - the roles, identities, securities and illusions she had created for herself - before finally emerging as something far more alive and powerful.
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'Sex, an eccentric cast and flashes of the black humour lighten a mid-life meditation on the nature of love, loss and redemption' (Scotsman)
Book clubs, start your engines. . . . [The Mermaid Chair] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss (USA Today)
Her writing is so smart and sharp, she gives new life to old midlife crises, and she draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn't see, and might not have the guts to follow (Time)
Emotionally rich... full of sultry, magical descriptions of life in the South... sure to be another hit for Kidd (Publishers Weekly)
Compelling reading.... The writing is soulful in its probing of the human heart and family secrets (San Francisco Chronicle)
It's hard to put this book down for little things like sleeping and eating (Elle)
Monk Kidd spins a highly charged tale full of sexual and spiritual desire. Every bit as convincing and moving as her previous, bestselling novel, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES (Mirror)
The powerful follow-up to the international bestseller, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES (Grazia)
Impulse, excitement and the anticipation swell within Kidd's prose which is magical, imaginative and effortless (The Big Issue (North))
So evocative is this novel, you can taste the salt air and feel the sand between your toes (Nottingham Evening Post)
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Book clubs, start your engines. . . . [The Mermaid Chair] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss (USA Today)
Her writing is so smart and sharp, she gives new life to old midlife crises, and she draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn't see, and might not have the guts to follow (Time)
Emotionally rich... full of sultry, magical descriptions of life in the South... sure to be another hit for Kidd (Publishers Weekly)
Compelling reading.... The writing is soulful in its probing of the human heart and family secrets (San Francisco Chronicle)
It's hard to put this book down for little things like sleeping and eating (Elle)
Monk Kidd spins a highly charged tale full of sexual and spiritual desire. Every bit as convincing and moving as her previous, bestselling novel, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES (Mirror)
The powerful follow-up to the international bestseller, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES (Grazia)
Impulse, excitement and the anticipation swell within Kidd's prose which is magical, imaginative and effortless (The Big Issue (North))
So evocative is this novel, you can taste the salt air and feel the sand between your toes (Nottingham Evening Post)
The wonderful new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed runaway bestseller THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, which has sold 2.5 million copies in the US
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- PublisherHeadline Review
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0755307623
- ISBN 13 9780755307623
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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