A Spell of Winter
Author(s): Helen Dunmore
Catherine and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - 'the man from nowhere' - they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets - and the outside world as it moves towards the First World War. As time passes their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory - but they are not as alone in the house as they believe ...
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Winner of Orange Prize for Fiction 1996. Shortlisted for Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010.
A marvellous novel about forbidden passions Daily Mail An intensely gripping book...written so seductively that some passages sing out from the page, like music for the eyes Sunday Times A hugely involving story which often stops you in your tracks with the beauty of its writing Observer An electrifying and original talent, a writer whose style is characterized by a lyrical, dreamy intensity Guardian
Helen Dunmore has published nine novels with Penguin: Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer.
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- : 53783
- : 44793
- : 0.215
- : 25 October 2007
- : 198mm X 129mm X 19mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
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- : Helen Dunmore
- : Paperback
- : 823.914
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