A Spell of Winter - Hardcover

Dunmore, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871137828 ISBN 13: 9780871137821

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Abandoned by their parents, Catherine and her brother, Rob, are left to the care of their mysterious grandfather, living in an enclosed and stifling world, virtually imprisoned by servants guarding the mysteries of their heritage, where their only solace is their relationship with each other. By the author of With Your Crooked Heart.

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Review:

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)

About the Author:

Helen Dunmore has published nine novels with Penguin: Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; 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 for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She is also a poet, children’s novelist and short-story writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0871137828
• ISBN 13: 9780871137821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312