Author:Marcia Willett
'Riveting, moving and utterly feel-good' Daily Mail
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Paradise has been home to generations of Trevannions: Paradise, the house at the head of a sheltered Cornish valley where Mrs Trevannion lives, surrounded by her family. Frail and elderly Honor Trevannion, bedridden following a nasty fall, is inexplicably anxious and distressed by the arrival of a young American bearing an old black and white photograph of a double wedding and looking for a long-lost relation.
Her children Bruno and Emma, granddaughter Joss and faithful cousin Mousie try to nurse Honor back to health, unaware of the secrets which she keeps from those closest to her. Increasingly troubled and confused, she begs Joss to find a cache of letters which have been hidden for fifty years.
Too late to hear the story from Honor herself, the family are faced with revelations which could destroy the tranquillity of life in their beloved valley. Will they be torn apart or can they unite in admiration for one woman's courage in standing by the life-changing decision she made so many years ago?
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Praise for Marcia Willett:
'A genuine voice of our time' The Times
'Riveting, moving and utterly feel-good' Daily Mail
'Willett's romantic and bewitching novels are always delightfully satisfying'
—— Lancashire Evening Post'A warm read about friendship, loyalty and just how far people will go to protect the ones they love'
—— CandisEngrossing...will delight Willett's steadily-growing readership
—— Yorkshire PostLawrence was the first literary artist to emphasise the huge importance of sex as a means of human fulfillment
—— The TimesIts questions about marriage and eroticism, grief and the frightening blankness of nature, have made it one of our century's most popular novels
—— Financial 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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