Silence and Shadows - Softcover

Long, James

3.9

152 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553581449 ISBN 13: 9780553581447

Publisher: Bantam Books, 2002

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Hoping to escape painful memories of his past, Patrick Kane joins an archaeological dig in the village of Wytchlow, where he comes face to face with a woman who bears a striking resemblance to a woman he loved and lost years ago and becomes caught up in a local legend about a mysterious Saxon warrior woman supposedly buried nearby. Reprint.

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‘A story of love and self-discovery that resonates across the ages’
Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer

‘The book grips... It belongs to the unputdownable, so goodbye sleep. I love it... the whole story sang’
Mary Wesley

‘The book is a lovely puzzle, exploring landscape and the lives that shape it, and a profound comment on the way each generation adapts to change. An ambitious and enthralling novel with distinct echoes of Hardy’
Mail on Sunday

‘One can hardly imagine that any devotee of the fantastic genre could do anything other than adore this book’ Infinity Plus

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An archaeologist becomes drawn into the life of the Wessex village in which he is supervising a dig in an ancient burial chamber. Ironically, by becoming an academic who uncovers the past, Patrick is seeking to bury his own former life – he was an internationally famous rock musician. The haunting beauty of a local girl, the strangely ancient folk-songs of a young man in the pub ... somehow the past seems to be reaching out to tell its story to the present, and Patrick's own previous life, of violence and rock 'n' roll selfishness that led to the death of his wife, cannot be suppressed forever. The result is explosive, thrilling, romantic, painful, funny, tragic, and redemptive.

James Long is developing a reputation as a brilliant storyteller with a fascination for the links between the time we call 'history' and the time we call the present – showing us that the two are often closer than we think.

'Silence and Shadows' is his finest and most moving novel yet.

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