Author:Natasha Farrant
Every summer throughout her childhood, Florence would return to her family home on the west coast of France, where she would be joined by her exotic, hopelessly glamorous cousins and life as she knew it would begin under the benevolent eye of her grandmother Mimi.It was a heady existence of illicit drinking, stolen kisses and the bittersweet pains of first love.
But now Florence is living completely alone with her new baby.Haunted by nightmares, she cannot open the letters from her grandmother accumulating on her mantelpiece.What devastating truth do these letters hold?Why has Florence turned her back on her past? And will she and Mimi ever be able to escape the guilt that is tearing them apart and has shaken their family to its very core?
Compulsively readable ...I loved it!
—— Meg RosoffA novel of life and death and the people caught in between, The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best. You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more
—— Markus Zusak, author of The Book ThiefDamn near genius . . . Simply devastating . . . Fearless in the face of powerful, uncomplicated, unironized emotion
—— TIMEFunny . . . Poignant . . . Luminous
—— Entertainment WeeklyBlizzards blow, wolves run loose in the forests, the doctor duels with Death, who is never satisfied
—— Harpers & QueenIntensely cinematic
—— Big IssueDeft exploration of the wondrous and sad inscrutability of the human heart.
—— New York TimesYan is a keen observer of the cruel and the magical, and has a fine sense of the permeable line between high hilarity and Kafkan nightmare.
—— Waterbridge ReviewMasterful
—— Lancashire Evening PostMasterful novel… Spare, beautifully understated prose…
—— Pam Norfolk , UK Regional Press SyndicationBlurs fact and fiction with aplomb… Royle’s novel is a sharp portrait of a man going very wrong.
—— Ben Felsenburg , MetroExtremely good.
—— John Burnside , The TimesDazzling… Royle attended last year’s Man Booker Prize ceremony as editor of one of the shortlisted titles, Alison Moore’s The Lighthouse… I wouldn’t bet against Royle having to dry-clean the tux on his own account next time.
—— Anthony Cummins , Sunday TelegraphRoyle’s coup is to deliver the pithy sting of a good short story many times over the course of a whole novel.
—— Claire Lowdon , New StatesmenI admired it so much and wanted to go back and see how it was all put together. His book absolutely enchanted me.
—— Jenn Ashworth , IndependentThis may be a tricksily metafictional novel but Royle hasn’t forgotten his readers.
—— Stephanie Cross , Daily Mail5 stars, gripping, innovative and fluent.
—— BookmebookblogNicholas Royle has produced the holy grail: a literary page-turner. Although it’s published in January, I’ll be astonished if it doesn’t make the short list of many a prize at the end of the year.
—— BookmunchA strange, unsettling brew that simply entertains at first before revealing darker and more dangerous depths as it progresses; a dark and delicious treat for lovers of literary fiction who like to have their grey cells tickled.
—— JustwilliamsluckA vertiginous murder mystery with echoes of JG Ballard, David Lodge and Alain Robbe-Grillet
—— Sunday TelegraphIf writing about creative writing is to risk a novel eating itself, we can be thankful that a writer of Royle's skills put himself in charge of the banquet
—— Gerard Woodward , GuardianA brilliant, eerie mix of campus meta-novel, whodunnit, failed-love story and existential contemplation
—— Peter J. Smith , Times Higher EducationThis just might be the exceptional book which should be judged by its cover
—— Liam Heylin , Irish ExaminerAn ingenious tale
—— ObserverCleverly metafictional, humorously perverse, and impressively original
—— Courtney Garner , Yorker
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