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Clara's Daughter

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Description for Clara's Daughter Paperback. Michele is a successful business woman with a troubled private life. When she moves her elderly mother, Clara, into the basement, her husband slams the door and disappears into the night. Eventually, Clara - the controlling matriarch - finds a way to release her daughter. But can Michele release herself? Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.

Michele is a successful business woman with a troubled private life. She has a high-powered job, a family, a husband, yet she is defined by a term of possession: she is ‘Clara’s daughter’. Nameless. When Michele moves her mother into the basement, her husband slams the door and disappears into the night. Michele increasingly hides away upstairs, as Clara weaves her conspiracies beneath.

Clara’s Daughter begins in terraced houses and city parks of North London but develops, through sharp-edged monologues and surreal visions, into a primeval stand-off between mother and daughter. Eventually, Clara – the controlling matriarch – finds a ... Read more

Meike Ziervogel is a master of suspenseful storytelling. In Clara’s clandestine power games and Michele’s increasingly fraught dealings with both her mother and her own highly-strung sister, Hilary, there emerges a chilling, yet poignant family tableau. Devastating in its psychological insights, Clara’s Daughter reveals unnerving truths about relationship anxieties on many levels, which emerge not only from Ziervogel’s elegant, succinct descriptions, but build steadily from the tense, silent spaces between the unfolding of main events. A divinely-crafted, almost cinematic novella, Clara’s Daughter is at once startling, moving and intensely enduring.

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Product Details

Publisher
Salt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cromer, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907773792
SKU
V9781907773792
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-45

About Meike Ziervogel
Meike Ziervogel grew up in Germany and came to Britain in 1986 to study Arabic. In 2008, she founded Peirene Press. Flotsam is Meike’s fifth novel. Find out more about Meike at www.meikeziervogel.com

Reviews for Clara's Daughter
Ziervogel is the brave woman who set up Peirene Press five years ago … Her own debut novel displays similar nerve … This is an ambitious and queasily unsettling novel.
DAVID MILLS
The Sunday Times
This frank, disturbing novel is an intriguing mix of fact and fiction and pulls no punches. The author sets out to use ... Read more

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