In A Good Light (ePub)
Without even noticing, Esther Fairchild has become locked into routine.
Living with her adored brother, Christian, she...
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From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - winner of the 2022 British Book Awards Page-Turner
Without even noticing, Esther Fairchild has become locked into routine.
Living with her adored brother, Christian, she divides her time between illustrating children's books, nightly shifts as a waitress, weekly visits to her father and fortnightly meetings with her married lover.
Then one day she encounters a face in the crowd which jolts her out of her mundane existence and makes her question both her life and the past that has helped to shape it. Memories she had long chosen to forget begin to resurface. Memories of an eccentric childhood in a large and shabby house, where the children were left to fend for themselves within the loose boundaries of their parents' unorthodox values. A chaotic existence peopled by a rich collection of feckless 'guests'.
And into this shambolic world came Donovan - regularly deposited by his unreliable mother - and Penny, Christian's girlfriend and Esther's idol. Until tragedy struck and shattered their joint existence. But now, it seems, their lives are about to become intertwined once more . . .
Praise for Clare Chambers:
'A wonderful novel. I loved it' Nina Stibbe on Small Pleasures
'Effortless to read, but every sentence lingers in the mind' Lissa Evans on Small Pleasures
'A captivating read' Woman's Own
'An irresistible novel - wry, perceptive and quietly devastating' Mail on Sunday on Small Pleasures
'Shines with an old-fashioned moral certainty that is as subtle and refreshing as it is unexpected' Independent on Sunday
'An almost flawlessly written tale of genuine, grown-up romantic anguish' The Sunday Times on Small Pleasures
Clare began her career as a secretary at the publisher André Deutsch, when Diana Athill was still at the helm. They not only published her first novel, but made her type her own contract. In due course she went on to become a fiction and non-fiction editor there herself, until leaving to raise a family and concentrate on her own writing. Some of the experiences of working for an eccentric, independent publisher in the pre-digital era found their way into her novel The Editor's Wife (Century, 2007). When her three children were teenagers, inspired by their reading habits, she produced two YA novels, Bright Girls (HarperCollins 2009) and Burning Secrets (HarperCollins 2011).
Her most recent novel is Small Pleasures (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020).
She takes up a post as Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent in September 2020.
- Autor: Clare Chambers
- 2009, Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
- ISBN-10: 1409063135
- ISBN-13: 9781409063131
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.05.2009
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