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Devotion
Ros Barber
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Description for Devotion
Paperback. The new novel from the award-winning author of The Marlowe Papers Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 270.
April is angry.Only nineteen, she is an elective mute, accused of a religiously motivated atrocity. Dr Finlay Logan is broken. A borderline-suicidal psychologist still reeling from his daughter’s death, he must assess April’s sanity in a world where – ten years after the death of Richard Dawkins – moves have been made to classify religious belief as a form of mental illness. Both April and Finlay struggle to understand what has happened to them, sharing secrets, silence and an inability to deal with the world around them.
Gently unpicking the lives of these two broken characters, Barber offers a ... Read more
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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780749211
SKU
V9781780749211
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99-50
About Ros Barber
Dr Ros Barber is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning The Marlowe Papers. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, lecturer in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, and Director of Research at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust. She lives in Brighton.
Reviews for Devotion
'Thoughtful, intelligent'
Literary Review
'Barber's sensational premise delivers an unexpectedly piercing exploration of loss and different kinds of faith.'
Kirkus
Literary Review
'Barber's sensational premise delivers an unexpectedly piercing exploration of loss and different kinds of faith.'
Kirkus