Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Description for The Scrapbook
Paperback. The Scrapbook is a novel about memory, and the unreliability of memory. It's about the tangled, often dysfunctional, bonds of family. And it's about absence and the power that a void can exert over a person's life. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
Fern's choices in life and in love are an echo of her mother's, as Iris' are an echo of her own mother's. Three women, three generations: one dark secret. Iris keeps a scrapbook of Lawrence, the lover who went missing years earlier. Fern's father. She defines herself by his loss and soothes herself with gin and the fairytale of this one perfect relationship...Fern, once a 'strange and difficult child' who believed that her dead grandmother's soul lived inside her stomach, reluctantly returns home to the island to take care of Iris. She is tasked with finding Lawrence and in ... Read more
Fern's choices in life and in love are an echo of her mother's, as Iris' are an echo of her own mother's. Three women, three generations: one dark secret. Iris keeps a scrapbook of Lawrence, the lover who went missing years earlier. Fern's father. She defines herself by his loss and soothes herself with gin and the fairytale of this one perfect relationship...Fern, once a 'strange and difficult child' who believed that her dead grandmother's soul lived inside her stomach, reluctantly returns home to the island to take care of Iris. She is tasked with finding Lawrence and in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Parthian Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910409831
SKU
V9781910409831
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Carly Holmes
Carly Holmes was born on the Channel Island of Jersey and lives on the west coast of Wales. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UOW Trinity Saint David and has just completed her PhD in Creative Writing. A number of her short stories have been published and placed in competitions. Carly is Secretary for the PENfro Book festival ... Read more
Reviews for The Scrapbook
"An extremely readable debut. Mysterious, esoteric, and compassionate... Beautifully controlled." - "Buzz Magazine"