Luke Ribbons is drifting away from his parents, his parish and his old friends and, with luck, into the arms of Pearl Slattery. Unfortunately for Luke, Pearl does not share his amorous vision. From the author of AN ADVENT CALENDAR and A BOWL OF CHERRIES. First published in 1986.
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Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and, in 2003, Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Southampton.
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