Chasing Angels - Hardcover

Henderson, Meg

3.43

53 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002254379 ISBN 13: 9780002254373

Publisher: Flamingo, 2000

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Chasing Angels

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“The overall effect is of being at your auntie’s, of listening to an enthusiastic storyteller, of the fascination of taking a microscope to seemingly ordinary lives, seemingly mundane situations, and bringing them into dramatic focus.”
Scotland on Sunday

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Kathy Kelly, born in the heart of Glasgow's tough East End Barras Market, is part of a family riven by favouritism and jealousies, by slights, real and imagined. She grows up with a sharp wit and a quick temper, engaging in verbal warfare with those who cross her, her father, her grandmother, the local parish priest – Kathy takes no prisoners. But she copes, unlike her oldest brother Peter, who disappears as fast as he can.

When she reaches a crisis in her life Kathy moves to the Western Highlands to start all over again. But family ties drag her back to Glasgow, where she is forced to look at things afresh, at past events and people she though she knew well, and eventually begin the search for her missing brother, a search which will result in an extraordinary, devastating discovery.

Page-turning and emotionally powerful. Strong sense of place, great sense of humour and crackling narrative pace. Another great novel from Meg Henderson.

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