Mesmerizing storytelling, great themes embodied and hidden in the workings of realistic relationships and lives, precise language and a strong whiff of the uncanny – a magnificent novel.
A moving and memorable epic tale that spans decades and continents to bring us the riches of one family’s history of intertwined lives.
In the farming country of Winnipeg, two brothers grow up and apart in the 1930s, gravitating towards a parent each as mother and father themselves find a changing climate in world affairs reaching out to their rural backwater and prising them asunder...
Exhaustion is crippling FIka at the icecap; it’s midwinter 1960, and she’s lost her companions to a frosty death, can barely carry her lifeblood, and must still ski for a month yet to reach civilization on the other side of the North Pole. Will she survive? Where will she find the will?
Quite how these two gripping tales on their separate sides of the globe unfold and come together as mesmerizingly as they do is the beauty and the accomplishment of this magical epic.
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"The characters are thousands of miles apart and there are points when we desperately want the two narratives to rub up close. But Bowering keeps us hanging on like icicles until the dark and wonderful end." THE TIMES
"Bowering floats across the surface of time as gracefully as Fika glides along the ice; she writes lyrically but unobtrusively, letting the longings and hopes of her characters emerge of their own accord. When time runs out for one of them, you are surprised to find how much you care. " GUARDIAN
"Marilyn Bowering's second novel is a tour de force, lavish in its scale, complication and information... Bowering unteases the epic story of three families over 30 years, across 3 continents and through two wars. With a fine balance of conviction, she pulls it off."
"Visible Worlds is quite unlike anything I have ever read... a huge and richly detailed, properly page-turning story, surprisingly knotted and plotted, magical and vivid.A vast and intricately wrought romancewith its epic journeys into extremis and ice and alchemic intelligence illuminates the normally invisible filaments of friendship, love and truth." Liz Lochhead
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