Sunset - Softcover

Brayfield, Celia

2.57

30 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316646865 ISBN 13: 9780316646864

Publisher: Little, Brown, 1999

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Placido's Beach Bar, the ultimate beach bar - although there is no beach at the end of the bay and few let their dreams bring them to this one-boat fishing village. Kim has come to Placido's to watch the sun set, to wait for her lover, and to understand the instability of all that seems stable. Kim's life started before she was ready and ran out of control into tragedy. She came through with the help of her friend, vibrant, fascinating Stella; now there is also Matthew, Kim's lover, a creature of true instinct but deceptive beauty. A woman, her lover and her friend; sacred bonds or the random choice of destiny? The island Los Alcazares, a scrap of desert in the sub-tropical Atlantic, a place of fantastic dreams and immeasurable secrets, of strange energies and violent events. Its people are fugitives, hedonists and visionaries, a mulinational community of refugees from reality. Among them a death has occured, a death for which both Stella and Matthew may be responsible. Written with profound passion and great precision, SUNSET, is haunting, vivid and a novel of paradoxes - trust and mystery, faith and knowledge, fate and love. The most ambitious work yet from a supremely perceptive and compelling modern writer.

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Review:

With Sunset, highly acclaimed British bestseller, Celia Brayfield, (Pearls, Getting Home, White Ice, Harvest) gives readers yet another compulsively readable novel. It's a sure-fire recipe. Believable characters, an interesting location, feelings that threaten to erupt and a mystery. Brayfield has the storyteller's gift of keeping us on the edge of our seats and she writes extremely well. On the surface things seemed to be going fine for Kim, at last. After an unsatisfactory and then increasingly sad earlier life, Kim had met Matthew and they had fallen passionately in love at first sight. They had moved from England to Los Alcazares, the beautiful and romantic Canary Island where Kim's best friend, Stella, and she had spent such a wonderful time. But now Kim finds herself threatened by the obsessive thoughts and feelings erupting inside her. Is Matthew having an affair with Stella? Is that why Stella's boring husband died in a car crash? As well as being hugely entertaining, this is a thought-provoking and elegantly crafted novel.

Brayfield intertwines a dramatic 18th-century account of the earliest volcanic explosions on the island with the fast-moving emotional rumblings in the present. And just when we think we've got the measure of it all, Kim's past explodes in our face. A terrific read by a clever, talented writer who has also published non-fiction books about dance, about fame and, wait for it, the art of writing bestselling fiction. --Tamsin Palmer

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Told with great skill and masterful timing (GOOD HOUSEKEEPING)

A complex and cleverly written book (IRELAND IMAGE MAG)

Brayfield has the storyteller's gift of keeping us on the edge of our seats...A terrific read by a clever, talented writer (AMAZON.CO.UK)

Brayfield tells a good story, and her account of the internecine squabbles of bored expats has its funny moments'. THE TIMES ('Brayfield is a fine prose stylist; her characterisation is good, as is the sense of place, and the central relationships are sound')

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