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The Language of Others
Clare Morrall
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Description for The Language of Others
Paperback. The wise, warm story of a woman negotiating her way through life without realising she doesn't understand the rules of the game, by the Booker-shortlisted author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 254. Good copy with some shelf wear but overall in a good condition9780752844718
The world is a puzzling, sometimes frightening place for Jessica Fontaine. As a child she only finds contentment in playing the piano and wandering alone in the empty spaces of Audlands Hall, the dilapidated country house where she grows up. Twenty-five years later, divorced, with her son still living at home, Jessica remains preoccupied by the desire to create space around her. Then her volatile ex-husband reappears, the first of several surprises that both transform Jessica's present and give her a startling new perspective on the past. THE LANGUAGE OF OTHERS tells ... Read more
The world is a puzzling, sometimes frightening place for Jessica Fontaine. As a child she only finds contentment in playing the piano and wandering alone in the empty spaces of Audlands Hall, the dilapidated country house where she grows up. Twenty-five years later, divorced, with her son still living at home, Jessica remains preoccupied by the desire to create space around her. Then her volatile ex-husband reappears, the first of several surprises that both transform Jessica's present and give her a startling new perspective on the past. THE LANGUAGE OF OTHERS tells ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340896679
SKU
KIN0035010
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99-1
About Clare Morrall
Clare Morrall's first novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, was published in 2003 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year. She has since published the novels Natural Flights of the Human Mind, The Language of Others, The Man Who Disappeared, which was a TV Book Club Summer Read in 2010, The Roundabout Man and After the Bombing. ... Read more
Reviews for The Language of Others
Morrall's rewarding third novel combines strong characters and vital evocations of place with a greater psychological intensity
Financial Times
Subtle and absorbing . . . Morrall has a talent for making pitiable characters triumphantly sympathetic
Guardian
Not only very readable, but very moving; a funny, and occasionally sad, account of what it feels like to be ... Read more
Financial Times
Subtle and absorbing . . . Morrall has a talent for making pitiable characters triumphantly sympathetic
Guardian
Not only very readable, but very moving; a funny, and occasionally sad, account of what it feels like to be ... Read more