Alice's Masque - Hardcover

Clarke, Lindsay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224032879 ISBN 13: 9780224032872

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

It is September 1991, three days before the autumnal equinox. Ronan is driving westwards into Cornwall, looking for the lover he has lost, and desperate to reclaim her. The search will bring him to Roseleye -the gull-coloured house by the sea where Alice has lived for almost fifty years since her time of scandal and disgrace. There, in the shifting light of an animate landscape, Ronan finds himself drawn into a masque of trial and transformation. By the time the equinox arrives he will come to see that more than one kind of death was waiting for him on the Cornish coast.

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Review:

Alice s Masque is an ambitious and deeply felt meditation on the eternally fraught nature of relationships between men and women and on the fragile possibility of transfigurations and new beginnings --Times Literary Supplement

Lindsay Clarke s stunning Alice s Masque starts as a story of lost irretrievable love. --The Times

Synopsis:

Set in Cornwall, this book follows the lives of Alice, her relative Greer and Ronan, Greer's lover. The setting is Roseleye, Alice's house on the coast. The lives of Alice, Greer and Ronan are caught up in the dramas of the house and the cove beyond it. The author won the 1989 Whitbread Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0224032879
• ISBN 13: 9780224032872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256