Isabel is recovering from a difficult birth and the resulting hysterectomy, at her idyllic Sussex home. Her sister Nina comes to stay and finds herself deeply attracted to Isabel's husband, Richard. Helen Dunmore was the winner of the the first Orange Prize for "A Spell of Winter".
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`Thrilling ... a book to read in one enthralling sitting' The
Times
`A writer of quiet deadly power ... it takes two paragraphs to hook you.
Don't resist' Time Out
`Dunmore's capacity for hauntingly psychological storytelling is on
brilliant display' Sunday Times
`Flies off the page, startling the reader with its brilliance' Financial
Times
`Electrifying' Daily Mail
Helen Dunmore lives in Bristol. She is an award winning poet and novelist. Her adult novels, all published by Penguin, are; ZENNOR IN DARKNESS, which was awarded the McKitterick Prize in 1994, BURNING BRIGHT and A SPELL OF WINTER, which won the 1996Orange Prize for Fiction.
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