Burning Bright - Hardcover

Dunmore, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670846961 ISBN 13: 9780670846962

Publisher: Viking, 1994

Synopsis

Nadine is slipping into an underworld where property-dealing provides cover for a lucrative business, and a government minister's success masks hungers that stretch back to childhood. Only her 80-year-old friend sees danger closing in. A love grows between these two women at opposite ends of life.

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Review:

A story of terrible innocence...with openings of unexpected love and grace worthy of Graham Greene (The Independent on Sunday)

Burning Bright is a beautifully constructed and thought-provoking novel, with a freshness that makes it outstanding (Sunday Telegraph)

Helen Dunmore beautifully fulfils the highest function of a storyteller - to make you wonder what will happen next...one goes on addressing the problems of evil which Dunmore raises, long after one has finished her electrifying book (Sunday Times)

About the Author:

Helen Dunmore has published nine novels with Penguin: Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She is also a poet, children’s novelist and short-story writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0670846961
• ISBN 13: 9780670846962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272