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The Falling Thread
Adam O´riordan
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'Exquisite' Financial Times 'Funny and moving, full of surprises and challenging ideas' Times Literary Supplement 'Deeply satisfying' Guardian 'O’Riordan imbues his narrative with an acutely modern awareness of power and capitalism’ The Times __________________ Manchester, the summer of 1890. A city humming with industry and gleaming with affluence. But for Charles, cloistered in his middle-class parents' suburban villa on holiday from university, the city's vibrancy holds no charms. Bored and a little listless, he spends the summer in pursuit of his little sisters' governess, Hettie. Before the summer's end, both must face the consequences of ... Read more
'Exquisite' Financial Times 'Funny and moving, full of surprises and challenging ideas' Times Literary Supplement 'Deeply satisfying' Guardian 'O’Riordan imbues his narrative with an acutely modern awareness of power and capitalism’ The Times __________________ Manchester, the summer of 1890. A city humming with industry and gleaming with affluence. But for Charles, cloistered in his middle-class parents' suburban villa on holiday from university, the city's vibrancy holds no charms. Bored and a little listless, he spends the summer in pursuit of his little sisters' governess, Hettie. Before the summer's end, both must face the consequences of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408856536
SKU
9781408856536
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About Adam O´riordan
Adam O’Riordan is the author of two collections of poems In the Flesh and A Herring Famine and the short story collection The Burning Ground. He grew up in Manchester and later read English at Oxford, winning scholarships to do a Masters and PhD with Professor Andrew Motion at the University of London. After working in publishing for several years, ... Read more
Reviews for The Falling Thread
An elegant, enthralling novel. I found I couldn't stop reading this intimiste epic of social change in the years leading up to the First World War. It has the lustre of life, beautiful and poignant
ADAM FOULDS This poised, Jamesian debut novel about a Manchester family in the lead up to the first world war is a masterclass in ... Read more
ADAM FOULDS This poised, Jamesian debut novel about a Manchester family in the lead up to the first world war is a masterclass in ... Read more