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The Beacon
Susan Hill
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Description for The Beacon
Paperback. May had been the clever daughter and she had escaped the shelter of the farmhouse, The Beacon, just once for the last 27 years, to go to university. But in London she had been pursued by nameless terrors. Now she was the spinster daughter. She nursed her father after his accident and looked after her mother in her old age. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
Colin. May. Frank. Berenice. The Prime children grew up in a bleak country farm house called The Beacon. Colin and Berenice married locally. May went to university in London, but came home within a year and never left again. Only Frank, quiet, watchful Frank, got away. He left for Fleet Street and a career in journalism but its the publication of a book about his childhood that brings the fame and money he craves - and tears his family apart.
Colin. May. Frank. Berenice. The Prime children grew up in a bleak country farm house called The Beacon. Colin and Berenice married locally. May went to university in London, but came home within a year and never left again. Only Frank, quiet, watchful Frank, got away. He left for Fleet Street and a career in journalism but its the publication of a book about his childhood that brings the fame and money he craves - and tears his family apart.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099526957
SKU
V9780099526957
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About Susan Hill
SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.
Reviews for The Beacon
A moving, evocative and rewarding novel
The Times
A brilliantly eerie little tale...with a very adroitly handled contemporary theme: the misery memoir
Scotland on Sunday
The Beacon uses a small canvas, but it examines larger issues of truth, mental health and memory... Ideas about wasted lives, about grinding exhaustion at the expense of self-expression and about rank injustice are all here in a novel of great structural and stylistic control
Guardian
Magnificent...It is all done so well, so wisely, that this short book is richly satisfying...it is a little masterpiece
Daily Telegraph
Captivating... There is, from the start, a highly charged atmosphere of anxiety and ambiguity...the suspense and mystery work perfectly, and for this Hill's economy is exactly what is needed
Financial Times
The Times
A brilliantly eerie little tale...with a very adroitly handled contemporary theme: the misery memoir
Scotland on Sunday
The Beacon uses a small canvas, but it examines larger issues of truth, mental health and memory... Ideas about wasted lives, about grinding exhaustion at the expense of self-expression and about rank injustice are all here in a novel of great structural and stylistic control
Guardian
Magnificent...It is all done so well, so wisely, that this short book is richly satisfying...it is a little masterpiece
Daily Telegraph
Captivating... There is, from the start, a highly charged atmosphere of anxiety and ambiguity...the suspense and mystery work perfectly, and for this Hill's economy is exactly what is needed
Financial Times