SEA MUSIC - Softcover

MacDonald, Sara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007150733 ISBN 13: 9780007150731

Publisher: HarperFiction, 2003

Synopsis

A beautifully written novel with great emotional appeal, of family secrets and wartime heritage, sweeping across Cornwall, London and Warsaw.

When Lucy Tremain goes to stay with her grandparents in their house in Cornwall overlooking the sea,she finds family papers hidden in the old cottage. The papers hint at wartime secrets.

From them emerges her grandmother’s story – a hidden story of wartime courage and terrible deprivation. And for three generations of the Tremain family the papers turn their lives upside down: her grandfather Fred, the country doctor who married Martha; Anna, the difficult, determined older child who is Lucy’s mother; and Barnaby, her benevolent, indulgent uncle.

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Praise for Sea Music

‘A beautifully written tale.’ Belfast Telegraph

'Thoughtful and compelling storytelling' Choice

‘A multi-layered, moving story told with compassion’ Cornishman

‘Beautifully crafted’ Cornwall Today

‘MacDonald’s characters are portrayed with great tenderness and understanding’ Liverpool Daily Post

‘a tender story about three generations of a family touched by prejudice, violence and war.’ Woman’s Own

Synopsis:

A beautifully written novel with great emotional appeal, of family secrets and wartime heritage, set in Cornwall, London and Warsaw. The house and the cottage overlooking the sea, on the corner of the big estate, was home to three generations of the Tremain family. Fred Tremain, the country doctor who - with his wife, Martha, for whose sake he had become estranged from his family - came first to this beloved corner of England: Anna, the difficult, determined older child, now a highly successful solicitor; and Barnaby, the easy-going second child, now a vicar to the parish: and the beloved granddaughter, Lucy. It is she whose discoveries of family papers, hidden in the old cottage, brings to light the first of the wartime secrets and begins the process of questioning so many old fears and hatreds, and unlocking the way to new relationships and new loves. Sara Macdonald has created a wonderful range of characters, depicted with great tenderness and understanding, against a background of the human price paid for the upheavals caused by prejudice, violence and wars today and yesterday. A wonderful novel for all the fans of Anita Shreve, Niall Williams and Rosamund Pilcher.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperFiction
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0007150733
• ISBN 13: 9780007150731
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560