Xan Brooks

The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa First Novel Award Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2018 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018 Longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction New Faces of Fiction 2017, Observer Observer Fiction to look out for in 2017 The Irish Times What To Look Out for in 2017 from Independent Publishers Jen Campbell's 'Most Anticipated Books of 2017' Jean Bookish Thoughts 'Most Anticipated Releases of 2017' A dark social-realist fairytale, spotlighting the shadowy underside of 1920s England Summer 1923: the modern world. Orphaned Lucy Marsh climbs into the back of an old army truck and is whisked off to the woods north of London - a land haunted by the past, where lost souls and monsters conceal themselves in the trees. In a sunlit clearing she meets the 'funny men', a quartet of disfigured ex-soldiers named after Dorothy's companions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Here are the loved and the damaged, dark forests and darker histories, and the ever-present risk of discovery and violent retribution. Xan Brooks' stunning debut is heartbreaking, disturbing and redemptive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Salt
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784630942
• Artikelnr.: 49907811

Autorenporträt

Xan Brooks is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He was one of the founding editorial team at the Big Issue magazine in London and spent 15-years as a writer and associate editor at the Guardian newspaper. His debut novel, The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times, was listed for the Costa First Novel Award, the Author's Club Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

Rezensionen

Observer Fiction to look out for in 2017The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times (Salt) by Xan Brooks - a fairytale wrapped within a historical novel, it's as quixotic and dreamlike as Ishiguro's The Buried Giant.
Alex Preston, author of In Love and War

Observer Fiction to look out for in 2017The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times (Salt) by Xan Brooks - a fairytale wrapped within a historical novel, it's as quixotic and dreamlike as Ishiguro's The Buried Giant.

Alex Preston, author of In Love and War