The Distance Between Us - Hardcover

O'Farrell, Maggie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0755302656 ISBN 13: 9780755302659

Publisher: Headline Review, 2004

Synopsis

Set largely between Hong Kong and the Scottish Highlands, Maggie O'Farrell's third novel is a story about family and emigration - and the way you can never escape your family, or their history, no matter how far you travel. Stella - spirited, witty and passionate - has fled London to confront the childhood secret which has marked her life, and twinned her destiny with her sister's. A set of tragic circumstances and a hasty marriage bring Jake from Hong Kong to Britain, where he embarks upon a quest for the father he never knew. When Jake and Stella meet, both their lives are changed forever, but not before Stella's past is brought painfully out into the open. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US is a loving, immensely moving and often very funny look at the way families work, which will live with the reader forever, and bring Maggie O'Farrell to her widest readership yet.

About this title

About the Author

Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972, and grew up in Wales and Scotland. She now lives in London. She has worked at the Poetry Society and at the Independent on Sunday, where she was Deputy Literary Editor. Her debut novel, AFTER YOU'D GONE, was published to international acclaim, and won a Betty Trask Award, her second, MY LOVER'S LOVER, was a Sunday Times Bestseller. Maggie was picked out by the Independent on Sunday as one of Britain's 20 most promising writers under 30.

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline Review
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0755302656
• ISBN 13: 9780755302659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384