Author:Katharine Davies
Eira is alone. Thirty-six years old and living on her own. She loved Jack, but their relationship had to end - she could never have a baby with an alcoholic. Now she works in a quiet museum, in the middle of a park, desperately lonely and aching for someone to love. And one spring morning, she finds a baby in a box on the museum steps.
Looking back to one unforgettable summer many years ago, that began as a hot, magical idyll but ended in tragedy, we see the painful confusion of a young girl caught up in very adult affairs.The guilt about what happened will stay with and shape Eira, and the horrific discovery of her thin and mysterious older sister's secret will scar her.
In Katharine Davies's haunting and many-layered story, the pain of an intense and unfulfilled longing is evoked in luminous and beautiful writing. Hush, Little Baby is about love and youth, longing and age, but it is very much a poignant and vivid exploration of a woman's experience and the visceral need to be a mother.
A superb novel with an ending that is entirely convincing
—— Kate Saunders , TimesA terrific new novel from the winner of last year's Romantic Novel of the Year Award (for the excellent A Good Voyage)
—— BellaAn intelligent, full-bodied, big-hearted book
—— Daily MailOne of the two unquestionable classics of the first order that [Conrad] added to the English novel
—— F.R. LeavisTo convey an adequate idea of a book of such various merits as that which the author of Typee and Omoo has here placed before the reading public, is impossible in the scope of a review. High philosophy, liberal feeling, abstruse metaphysics popularly phrased, soaring speculation, a style as many-coloured as the theme, yet always good, and often admirable; fertile fancy, ingenious construction, playful learning, and an unusual power of enchaining the interest, and rising to the verge of the sublime, without overpassing that narrow boundary which plunges the ambitious penman into the ridiculous; all these are possessed by Herman Melville, and exemplified in these volumes
—— London Morning Advertiser, October 24 1851What a book [Moby-Dick] Melville has written! It gives me an idea of much greater power than his preceding ones. It hardly seemed to me that the review of it, in the Literary World, did justice to its best points
—— Nathaniel HawthorneOsama bin Laden's name and face have become so numbingly familiar to Americans as in effect to obliterate any history he and his shadowy followers might have had before they became stock symbols of everything loathsome and hateful to the collective imagination. Inevitably, then, collective passions are being funnelled into a drive for war that uncannily resembles Captain Ahab in pursuit of Moby Dick
—— Edward SaidThat young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with
—— Sir Walter ScottI'd like to write a play as perfect as Emma
—— Simon GrayA literary phenomenon on the grandest scale – a work of genius
—— Isabel QuiglySublime and sweet melancholy suffuses the story. Beautiful
—— Tim Waterstone , The WeekA delicate meditation on mortality, decay and the fading of beauty
—— Martin Sixsmith , The WeekHistorical fiction at its best
—— Orlando Figes , The WeekNo novel is perfect, but this small, wonderfully atmospheric and immensely poignant story...comes very close
—— Sunday Times, *Summer Reads of 2021*
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