The Mermaid Chair - Hardcover

Kidd, Sue Monk

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585476323 ISBN 13: 9781585476329

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2005

Synopsis

Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid.

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Review:

'Sex, an eccentric cast and flashes of the black humour lighten a mid-life meditation on the nature of love, loss and redemption' (Scotsman)

Book clubs, start your engines. . . . [The Mermaid Chair] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss (USA Today)

Her writing is so smart and sharp, she gives new life to old midlife crises, and she draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn't see, and might not have the guts to follow (Time)

Emotionally rich... full of sultry, magical descriptions of life in the South... sure to be another hit for Kidd (Publishers Weekly)

Compelling reading.... The writing is soulful in its probing of the human heart and family secrets (San Francisco Chronicle)

It's hard to put this book down for little things like sleeping and eating (Elle)

Monk Kidd spins a highly charged tale full of sexual and spiritual desire. Every bit as convincing and moving as her previous, bestselling novel, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES (Mirror)

The powerful follow-up to the international bestseller, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES (Grazia)

Impulse, excitement and the anticipation swell within Kidd's prose which is magical, imaginative and effortless (The Big Issue (North))

So evocative is this novel, you can taste the salt air and feel the sand between your toes (Nottingham Evening Post)

Kidd has a flair for making us see her characters with great vividness and immediacy (New York Times Book Review)

A fascinating look at how the deepest ties can be tested when you meet the right person at the wrong time (Glamour)

Sue Monk Kidd... knows how to grab the attention of her readership... The novel also has humour and a profound feeling for its primeval landscape of mud flats and salt creeks... The sensitively plotted emotional journey makes this another inevitable bestseller (Time Out)

The author mixes a cocktail of myth, spiritual concerns and sexual yearning, and her descriptions of the island landscape are lush and detailed... (The Sunday Times)

Passionate and powerful, the book will have you hooked (Peterborough Evening Telegraph)

Book Description:

The wonderful new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed runaway bestseller THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, which has sold 2.5 million copies in the US

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1585476323
• ISBN 13: 9781585476329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368