The Past and Other Lies - Softcover

Joel, Maggie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1741963605 ISBN 13: 9781741963601

Verlag: Pier 9, 2009

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Reseña del editor

A captivating novel about sisters, faded memories and long-hidden secrets spanning three generations. At the height of Britain's General Strike in 1926 a red double-decker bus driven by a volunteer crashes into a low bridge in West London. Almost eighty years later Jennifer Denzel reveals on daytime television that as a teenager she'd found her sister Charlotte hanging by a school tie in their bedroom. But Charlotte can't believe her ears -- it was, she protests, Jennifer who tried to suicide all those years ago. Their grandmother Bertha dreams of a distant time: of a young man she met at a Socialist rally, an unexpected wedding and of a sister, long dead. Meanwhile her daughter, Deirdre, remembers a night during the War forty years earlier, when a V-2 rocket destroyed an entire street, and when she made a shocking discovery. Brimming with vivid detail of London past and present, The Past and Other Lies is full of warmth, atmosphere, subtle wit and exquisite surprises.

Biografía del autor

Maggie Joel is a British-born writer currently living in Sydney. She has been writing fiction and non-fiction for over ten years and has had many short stories published including in Southerly, Overland, Canberra Arts Review and Westerly.

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• Verlag: Pier 9
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1741963605
• ISBN 13: 9781741963601
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376