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RESULTSSearching enCompass books for 'Clare Morrall'... We found 3 matches.
Clare Morrall
Astonishing Splashes of Colour A surprise inclusion in the Booker shortlist of 2003, Morrall's novel is the moving account of a woman's attempt to come to terms with loss: that of her still-born son, her mother, who died when she was three, and an older sister who ran away in mysterious circumstances. The plot twists and turns but is always convincing and the novel is gripping. 'Morrall reveals her mystery artfully and convincingly, telling a story that is shocking, heart-stopping and completely absorbing.' The Observer
2003 Man Booker (shortlisted)
Tindal Street Press 2003 pbk £7.99 ISBN 0-9541303-2-4
Clare Morrall
The Language of Others The world is a puzzling, sometimes frightening place for Jessica Fontaine. As a child she only finds contentment in playing the piano and wandering alone in the empty spaces of Audlands Hall, the dilapidated country house where she grows up. Twenty-five years later, divorced, with her son still living at home, Jessica remains preoccupied by the desire to create space around her. Then her volatile ex-husband reappears, the first of several surprises that both transform Jessica's present and give her a startling new perspective on the past. The Language Of Others tells the absorbing story of a woman who spends much of her life feeling that she is out of step with the real world, until she discovers why. Related with humour and compassion, it offers a fresh, illuminating insight into what it means to be 'normal'.
Sceptre 2008 Hardcover £12.99 ISBN 978-0340896655
Clare Morrall
Natural Flights of the Human Mind In a disused lighthouse on the Devon coast lives Peter Straker, a recluse who, in his dreams, is visited by an oddly disparate group of people from a grandmother to a teenager. But they have all been dead for 24 years - and Straker thinks he killed them. Many years ago, newly-married Imogen Doody's husband went to work one day and never came back, leaving her angry at life and other people. Now Imogen has inherited a cottage near Straker's lighthouse, a piece of good fortune she badly needs. But the cottage is falling down, and she needs help restoring it... Guilt, emotional bruising and a Tiger Moth plane lie at the heart of this story of two misfits.
Sceptre 2006 hbk £12.99 ISBN 0-340-89649-3
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