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London to become a swan after stunning her family with a playful appearance as a newspaper model girl when she was only 17. Petra's own attempts to make a life seem always to have left her on the fringe of things, confused and used. A conventional marriage removed her from her family, but only to recreate the choking domesticity of her childhood.
Petra is forced to re-examine her relationship with her glamorous sister, discovering how little she knows about Caroline and the cracks on the surface that betrayed the greater fissures in what had seemed to be a carefree jet-setting life.
Counterpointing Petra's memories are the utterly different views and recollections of her elderly neighbour Frederic, a refugee from Nazi Germany, and a man whose gentle simplicity conceals a macabre secret. Annie Bullen deftly captures the atmosphere of the superficially prosperous but emotionally starved Appleton family, whose daughters have so much more in common than they have ever supposed...
Annie Bullen was born in Hampshire and still lives there with her two children. She works as a journalist and Air and Angels is her first novel.
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Review:
"Elegant and highly stylised...the prose has a lulling, rolling cadence" (Guardian)
"Subtle and profoundly beautiful" (Scotsman)
"Hill breaks all the rules of British irony and gets away with it, thanks in part to her obsessive imagination" (Independent)
"Subtle and profoundly moving, this novel is rich in the qualities for which Hill has won such high praise in the past" (Sunday Times)
"As light as a feather but as powerful as flight" (Observer)
Book Description:
"Subtle and profoundly beautiful" (Scotsman)
"Hill breaks all the rules of British irony and gets away with it, thanks in part to her obsessive imagination" (Independent)
"Subtle and profoundly moving, this novel is rich in the qualities for which Hill has won such high praise in the past" (Sunday Times)
"As light as a feather but as powerful as flight" (Observer)
An unsettling and absorbing tale from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.
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- PublisherUlverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 070898651X
- ISBN 13 9780708986516
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages336
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