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In her tender portrait of a woman returning to the English village where she grew up to bury her mother and sell their dilapidated house, Lucy Wood conjures a ghost, three generations of women, and a mesmerizing story of love, solace, and home.
Pearl doesn’t know how she’s ended up in the river?the same cacophonous river in the same rain-soaked valley she’d been stuck in for years. Ada, Pearl’s daughter, doesn’t know how she’s ended up back in the house she fled?with no heating apart from a fire she can’t light and no way of getting around apart from an old car she’s scared to drive. But Pepper, Ada’s six-year old daughter, who is used to following her restless mother from place to place, is drawn to the house and fascinated by the scattering of people she meets, by the river that unfurls through the valley, and by the strange old woman who sits on the bank with her feet in the icy water; she doesn’t know why anyone would ever want to leave.
Atmospheric and elegiac, Weathering is a lushly imagined first novel about family, homecoming, and the shimmering line between this world and the next.
Pearl doesn’t know how she’s ended up in the river?the same cacophonous river in the same rain-soaked valley she’d been stuck in for years. Ada, Pearl’s daughter, doesn’t know how she’s ended up back in the house she fled?with no heating apart from a fire she can’t light and no way of getting around apart from an old car she’s scared to drive. But Pepper, Ada’s six-year old daughter, who is used to following her restless mother from place to place, is drawn to the house and fascinated by the scattering of people she meets, by the river that unfurls through the valley, and by the strange old woman who sits on the bank with her feet in the icy water; she doesn’t know why anyone would ever want to leave.
Atmospheric and elegiac, Weathering is a lushly imagined first novel about family, homecoming, and the shimmering line between this world and the next.
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Each year, book blurbs tell you that a thousand new writers have fresh, distinctive voices. But fresh, distinctive voices are actually very rare. Lucy Wood has one.
Sensory, haunting and somewhat literally haunted, this novel tackles the big subjects--belonging, mortality, love--with quiet grace and intimate focus . . . Written from the points of view of all three female characters, the novel explores quintessential questions of relationship, growing up and survival. As in the river that rages through the story, though, the true vitality lies beneath the surface of Wood's exquisite and poetic writing . . . A luminous modern fairy tale.--starred review "Kirkus Reviews "
Lucy Wood is a sorceress. These stories unfold in a dreamy marine light, one that reveals the miraculous in the everyday. It is guaranteed to enrapture a reader, and you'll want to come up slowly from its depths.--Karen Russell on DIVING BELLES
Lucy Wood has an intensity and clarity of expression, deeply rooted in a sense of place. Her stories have a purity and strength, and an underlying human warmth; they resonate in the mind.--Philip Hensher on DIVING BELLES
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Sensory, haunting and somewhat literally haunted, this novel tackles the big subjects--belonging, mortality, love--with quiet grace and intimate focus . . . Written from the points of view of all three female characters, the novel explores quintessential questions of relationship, growing up and survival. As in the river that rages through the story, though, the true vitality lies beneath the surface of Wood's exquisite and poetic writing . . . A luminous modern fairy tale.--starred review "Kirkus Reviews "
Lucy Wood is a sorceress. These stories unfold in a dreamy marine light, one that reveals the miraculous in the everyday. It is guaranteed to enrapture a reader, and you'll want to come up slowly from its depths.--Karen Russell on DIVING BELLES
Lucy Wood has an intensity and clarity of expression, deeply rooted in a sense of place. Her stories have a purity and strength, and an underlying human warmth; they resonate in the mind.--Philip Hensher on DIVING BELLES
One of Wood's great strengths is the ability to fully inhabit her characters' consciousness. She skilfully modifies her prose as she moves from one mind to another, leavening her vividly descriptive passages with snippets of speech or thought, wittily profane and colloquial . . . Pepper is a glorious child in the tradition of Harper Lee's Scout and Donna Tartt's Harriet. "The Guardian"
Recalls Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping ." . . Wood is a creator of worlds. This sodden river valley is one to savour. "The Daily Telegraph"
Wood beautifully renders a landscape by turns rain-soaked and snow-laden . . . The author has a gift for capturing how humans are bound to and moulded by places. "The Sunday Times"
Marvelous . . . Bears a strong resemblance to E. Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News" . . . I could tell you this novel is about the portrait of an artist as a young girl. Or the thorny but loving relationship between mothers and daughters. Or how we discover ever more of our parents in ourselves as we age. Not yet 30, Wood handles all of these themes with remarkable insight, empathy and grace.But as her title suggests, Wood's real subject is time, and how it inexorably weathers us much as it does Pearl's house--itself a character. In a novel where the three protagonists gradually take shape through the many chapters devoted to each of them, the house gets its own chapter, during which Wood echoes the terrifying beauty of the middle section of Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"--in which another crumbling house underscores how quickly time passes. "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
Wood's finely wrought collection has touches of a benign Angela Carter and recalls the playful yet political transmogrifications of Atwood and Byatt. "The Guardian on DIVING BELLES"
The magic is always embedded, not only in familiar stories from folklore, but in the personal myths of the characters' lives. Thus, there is a quiet realism to even the most extraordinary events. "Minneapolis Star Tribune on DIVING BELLES"
Sensory, haunting and somewhat literally haunted, this novel tackles the big subjects--belonging, mortality, love--with quiet grace and intimate focus . . . Written from the points of view of all three female characters, the novel explores quintessential questions of relationship, growing up and survival. As in the river that rages through the story, though, the true vitality lies beneath the surface of Wood's exquisite and poetic writing . . . A luminous modern fairy tale. "Kirkus Reviews""
"Extraordinary writing, the finest language and imagery I ve come across in a very long time. Precise, unindulgent, fresh and honest, every page is a celebration." "New York Times Book Review"
"Sensory, haunting and somewhat literally haunted, this novel tackles the big subjects--belonging, mortality, love--with quiet grace and intimate focus . . . True vitality lies beneath the surface of Wood's exquisite and poetic writing . . . A luminous modern fairy tale." starred review, "Kirkus Reviews"
"Marvelous . . . I could tell you this novel is about the portrait of an artist as a young girl. Or the thorny but loving relationship between mothers and daughters. Or how we discover ever more of our parents in ourselves as we age. Not yet 30, Wood handles all of these themes with remarkable insight, empathy and grace." "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
"One of Wood s great strengths is the ability to fully inhabit her characters consciousness. She skilfully modifies her prose as she moves from one mind to another, leavening her vividly descriptive passages with snippets of speech or thought, wittily profane and colloquial . . . Pepper is a glorious child in the tradition of Harper Lee s Scout and Donna Tartt s Harriet." "The Guardian"
"Recalls Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping ." . . Wood is a creator of worlds. This sodden river valley is one to savour." "The Daily Telegraph"
"Wood beautifully renders a landscape by turns rain-soaked and snow-laden . . . The author has a gift for capturing how humans are bound to and moulded by places." "The Sunday Times"
"Lucy Wood is a sorceress. These stories unfold in a dreamy marine light, one that reveals the miraculous in the everyday. It is guaranteed to enrapture a reader, and you'll want to come up slowly from its depths." Karen Russell on DIVING BELLES"
"Extraordinary writing, the finest language and imagery I ve come across in a very long time. Precise, unindulgent, fresh and honest, every page is a celebration." New York Times Book Review
"Sensory, haunting and somewhat literally haunted, this novel tackles the big subjects--belonging, mortality, love--with quiet grace and intimate focus . . . True vitality lies beneath the surface of Wood's exquisite and poetic writing . . . A luminous modern fairy tale." starred review, Kirkus Reviews
"Marvelous . . . I could tell you this novel is about the portrait of an artist as a young girl. Or the thorny but loving relationship between mothers and daughters. Or how we discover ever more of our parents in ourselves as we age. Not yet 30, Wood handles all of these themes with remarkable insight, empathy and grace." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"One of Wood s great strengths is the ability to fully inhabit her characters consciousness. She skilfully modifies her prose as she moves from one mind to another, leavening her vividly descriptive passages with snippets of speech or thought, wittily profane and colloquial . . . Pepper is a glorious child in the tradition of Harper Lee s Scout and Donna Tartt s Harriet." The Guardian
"Recalls Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping . . . Wood is a creator of worlds. This sodden river valley is one to savour." The Daily Telegraph
"Wood beautifully renders a landscape by turns rain-soaked and snow-laden . . . The author has a gift for capturing how humans are bound to and moulded by places." The Sunday Times
"Lucy Wood is a sorceress. These stories unfold in a dreamy marine light, one that reveals the miraculous in the everyday. It is guaranteed to enrapture a reader, and you'll want to come up slowly from its depths." Karen Russell on DIVING BELLES
"From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Diving Belles: a beautifully bewitching novel of memories, mothers, ghosts and daughters
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- PublisherAtavist Inc
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1937894509
- ISBN 13 9781937894504
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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