Falling - Hardcover

Thubron, Colin

3.66

103 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871134276 ISBN 13: 9780871134271

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1991

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As Hampshire journalist Mark Swabey enters prison, the nature of his crime emerges through a variety of voices, including Mark's own and those of the two women in his life, who each define the word "love" very differently

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Review:

"He writes with impressive directness and simplicity at moments of passion-One is aware of the compassionate intelligence that is discreetly but continuously at work in this book" (Sebastian Faulks Independent)

"'Colin Thubron's voice is unique'" (Anita Brookner Spectator)

"Impeccably crafted and beautifully written-many books which are highly enjoyable in the reading leave no imprint on the imagination. This one does" (P. D. James Daily Telegraph)

"Mark Swabey, a provincial journalist, is serving a prison sentence in connection with the death of Clara the Swallow, a circus acrobat with whom he fell in love. And the grief-stricken Swabey looks back on their brief affair, the exact nature of his responsibility for Clara's death is movingly revealed-every sentence is informed by the most intense anguish'" (Michael Dibdin Observer)

"Thubron weaves a skilful, poignant story of love and loss, and also reinvents the myth of the Fall-This novel is above all celebratory. It trumpets the right to walk out on the high wire, to love dangerously and hopelessly - even if death (real or metaphorical) is the price" (Bel Mooney Sunday Times)

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'This is fiction of the highest quality - a story that aims high, risks everything and haunts' Mail on Sunday--

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