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The Beauty of Impossible Things
Rachel Donohue
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Description for The Beauty of Impossible Things
Paperback. Foresight is not always a gift... The summer Natasha Rothwell turns fifteen, strange dancing lights appear in the sky above her small town, lights that she interprets as portents of doom. Natasha leads a sheltered life with her beautiful, bohemian mother in a crumbling house by the sea. As news of the lights spreads, more and more visitors arrive in the town, creating a feverish atmosphere of anticipation and dread. And the arrival of a new lodger, the handsome Mr Bowen, threatens to upset the delicate equilibrium between mother and daughter. Then Natasha's fears seem to be realized when a local teenager goes missing, and she is called on to help. But her actions over that long, hot summer will have unforeseen and ultimately tragic consequences that will cast a shadow for many years to come.
'Poetic, atmospheric' Daily Mail
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Foresight is not always a gift...
The summer Natasha Rothwell turns fifteen, strange dancing lights appear in the sky above her small town, lights that she interprets as portents of doom.
Natasha leads a sheltered life with her beautiful, bohemian mother in a crumbling house by the sea. As news of the lights spreads, more and more visitors arrive in the town, creating a feverish atmosphere of anticipation and dread. And the arrival of a new lodger, the handsome Mr Bowen, threatens to upset the delicate equilibrium between mother and daughter.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786499417
SKU
9781786499417
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Ref
99-3
About Rachel Donohue
Rachel Donohue graduated from University College, Dublin, in Philosophy and Politics before embarking on a career in communications and media relations. Her short fiction has been published in the Irish Times, Irish Independent and at RTE online (Irish national broadcaster). In 2017, she won the prestigious Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award for her short fiction. Her debut ... Read more
Reviews for The Beauty of Impossible Things
A brooding, gothic-tinged coming-of-age tale... There is a gentle lyricism to Donohue's prose that brushes everything with a dreamy heat haze - but the emotions roiling beneath are sharp and cutting
The Times
Poetic, atmospheric
Daily Mail
An elegant, coming-of-age novel that has touches of Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse as well as LP Hartley's The Go-Between ... Read more
The Times
Poetic, atmospheric
Daily Mail
An elegant, coming-of-age novel that has touches of Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse as well as LP Hartley's The Go-Between ... Read more