Author:Joanna Trollope
Multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope expertly depicts how grief can tip the family balance head over heels in this beautifully written novel about change and hope through adversity. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse.
'Extraordinarily powerful' -- Mail on Sunday
'A devastatingly acute picture of a harsh rural world' -- The Sunday Times
'Certainly one of her best' -- Daily Telegraph
'A richly satisfying novel ... compulsively readable' -- Sunday Express
'Kept me interested - twists and turns - great character development - well written' -- ***** Reader review
'I couldn't put it down and finished the book in just a couple of days' -- ***** Reader review
'Excellent' -- ***** Reader review
'A wonderful book, a wonderful story, wonderful characters - a must have' -- ***** Reader review
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A FAMILY IN CRISIS. A CATALYST THAT THREATENS TO CHANGE EVERYTHING...
The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bought the farm from his father, just before he married his wife Caro and now he and his brother Joe work on the land. But now Caro has died, as much as a mystery to the family as she was when she arrived twenty years ago, and the whole family feels her loss acutely, none more so than her adopted daughter Judy.
Into this unhappy family comes Zoe, Judy's London friend, an outsider with an independent spirit and a disturbing directness. Everyone underestimates Zoe's power as a catalyst for change as the realities behind the seeming idyll of a rural community become ever clearer...
Extraordinarily powerful
—— Mail on SundayA devastatingly acute picture of a harsh rural world
—— The Sunday TimesCertainly one of her best
—— Daily TelegraphA richly satisfying novel, sometimes dark, but compulsively readable, and imagined with a warmth that makes its determined realism oddly uplifting
—— Sunday ExpressHer fine, gripping and unflinching novel
—— The TimesAbsorbing, uplifting and truly impressive
—— Daily ExpressThis is a great story...Malouf's beautiful language puts fresh flesh on to these ancient characters
—— Claire Allfree , MetroFew writers possess the natural lyric grace of Malouf
—— Eileen Battersby , Irish TimesMalouf's poetic yet muscular prose is wonderful
—— Ronald Wright , Times Literary SupplementA marvel- beautifully written, surprisingly moving, quietly rather brilliant
—— Harry Ritchie , Daily MailWhile Malouf's chief interest is in the human impulses that lie behind the epic deeds, he remains faithful to the beliefs and values of the ancient world
—— Edmund Gordon , Times Literary Supplementimmensely moving, modern novel
—— Elizabeth Speller , IndependentA dignified performance ... in writing this novel Malouf is honouring a great work and also making a great work of his own ... his graceful fiction deals in truth and is always beautiful
—— Eileen Battersby , Irish TimesBeautifully written and very moving, Ransom is a reimagining that respects Homer's original while expanding expertly on its themes.
—— Alastair Mabbott , HeraldMalouf captures the moving humanity of Priam's grief
—— Robert Collins , Sunday TimesLyrical reworking of the final scenes of The Iliad
—— MetroThis superb novel goes by in a heartbeat, so smooth and engrossing is David Malouf's prose...It is a touching tale, full of pain, but rendered beautifully by Malouf's humanity
—— Lesley McDowell , Independent on SundayAn audacious reworking of Homer's Iliad.
—— Holly Kyte , Sunday TelegraphDavid Malouf...has given Homer's epic fresh life in this haunting mood piece...a graceful, eloquent text dominated by rage and sorrow
—— Eileen Battersby , Irish TimesThis novel explores the timeless motifs of epic, in miniature
—— The TimesYou know it ends in death, and so do Malouf's haunted protagonists, but this telling, at once unfussy and wonderfully poetic, breathes warm life into a great epic
—— James Smart , GuardianBreathtaking skill...an extraordinary emotional charge.
—— Colm Toibin , Guardian, Christmas round upA finely honed, writerly and wise revisiting of one of the most famous episodes in The Iliad, when Priam the King of Troy goes to bring home the body of his dead son Hector. No-one in prose has managed to better Malouf's imaginative recreation of the Homeric world.
—— Robert Crawford , Sunday Herald, Christmas round upa potent new yarn... Beautifully written in simple language freighted with meaning, Ransom explores a king's impulse to act as a mourning father.
—— James Urquhart , Financial Times
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