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When mysterious loner Jim Smith moves into remote Paradise Farmhouse, he experiences some strange but wonderful midnight visits from an ethereal woman. He soon discovers that this dream-like figure is the incarnation of a 1960s beauty, immortalized in a famous nude portrait that belongs to his neighbour. Intrigued, Jim abandons his customary aloofness to find out more, and accepts a dinner invitation from his landlords - a billionaire-thug and his beautiful but mistreated wife. The dinner party - a chance for a brilliantly satirical sketch of the braying upper class hunting set - is disastrous and, soon after, Jim's pastoral idyll disintegrates. His lambs die. Cows give no milk. Bees swarm. Sensing his ghostly lover has turned malevolent, Jim knows he must placate her before the circle of decay reaches those he loves - even if that means making the ultimate sacrifice. Both unsettling ghost story and intense love story, The Gate of Air is by turns poetic, learned, satirical and allegorical. This is a beautifully crafted novel about love and loneliness, life and death, and the indelible traces we leave behind us when we die.

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Jim Smith, ousted by City financiers from his computer software company, retreats to an old farmhouse in the remote West of England. Though he knows nothing of country life, he takes on livestock and crops, a dog, and a labourer of mysterious and independent habits.
One night Jim is visited by convulsive dreams of a beautiful woman, and at dinner with the local magnate, he sees a ghost. His pastoral idyll disintegrates. All the certainties and reassurances of modern life vanish, and Jim must deal alone with elemental and implacable forces as old as his fields and woods.
The Gate of Air is both an exploration of a disturbed modernity and a fireside spine-chiller of Victorian vigour and conviction.

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  • PublisherISIS Large Print Books
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0753183889
  • ISBN 13 9780753183885
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages224
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