Alice's Masque - Softcover

Lindsay Clarke

3.33

48 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846881706 ISBN 13: 9781846881701

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd, 2011

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It is September 1991, three days before the autumnal equinox. Ronan is driving westwards into Cornwall, looking for the lover he has lost, and desperate to reclaim her. The search will bring him to Roseleye - the gull-coloured house by the sea where Alice has lived for almost fifty years since her time of scandal and disgrace. There, in the shifting light of an animate landscape, Ronan finds himself drawn into a masque of trial and transformation. By the time the equinox arrives he will come to see that more than one kind of death was waiting for him on the Cornish coast.

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Review:

Alice s Masque is an ambitious and deeply felt meditation on the eternally fraught nature of relationships between men and women and on the fragile possibility of transfigurations and new beginnings --Times Literary Supplement

Lindsay Clarke s stunning Alice s Masque starts as a story of lost irretrievable love. --The Times

About the Author:

Lindsay Clarke is the author of 7 novels, including THE CHYMICAL WEDDING which won the Whitbread Award for Fiction in 1989, and THE WATER THEATRE published by Alma Books in 2010. He has been Writer in Residence at the University of Wales, Cardiff, where he became a long-term Associate of the MA Creative Writing programme, is Creative Consultant to the Pushkin Trust in Northern Ireland, and has directed conferences at Dartington, been Scholar-in-Residence at Schumacher College, and has lectured widely in England abroad and tutored many courses for the Arvon Foundation. He lives in Somerset (Frome) with his wife who is a ceramic artist.

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