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Nightingale Point (Hardcover): Luan Goldie

Nightingale Point (Hardcover)

Luan Goldie

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER 'A sharp, funny, wonderful writer' Diana Evans, bestselling author of Ordinary People 'Compelling...finely crafted, compassionate' Guardian 'A warm, confident writer with the lightest of touches' Observer 'Pacey and powerful' Mail on Sunday 'The type of story that will stay with you long after you've read the last page' Closer 'Brilliant...touches on race, mental health and community in a fresh way' Good Housekeeping 'Flawlessly portrayed...A riveting read' Candis * * * * * On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries. Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after. Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his twenty-one years. Tristan wishes Malachi would stop pining for Pamela. No wonder he's falling in with the wrong crowd, without Malachi to keep him straight. Elvis is trying hard to remember to the instructions his care worker gave him, but sometimes he gets confused and forgets things. Pamela wants to run back to Malachi but her overprotective father has locked her in and there's no way out. It's a day like any other, until something extraordinary happens. When the sun sets, Nightingale Point is irrevocably changed and somehow, through the darkness, the residents must find a way back to lightness, and back to each other. * * * * * Readers love Nightingale Point: 'A beautiful and heartbreaking story about working-class people and their lives both before and after tragedy' 'I couldn't put it down...a beautiful story of staying strong when it matters most' 'A triumphant debut...This book pops, fizzes and sparkles to life' 'A must read masterpiece'

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Imprint: HQ
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2019
Authors: Luan Goldie
Dimensions: 240 x 159 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-831445-3
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN: 0-00-831445-4
Barcode: 9780008314453

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Wed, 28 Aug 2019 | Review by: Breakaway R.

An ordinary day changed by an extraordinary event. This is an impressive debut novel from the winner of the Costa Short Story Award. The book is set in a high-rise estate - a background the author is obviously familiar with, as the writing and dialogue are definitely authentic. The story revolves around people living in the flats and all connected in some way. It is a depressing picture. The lifts don’t work, and the building has many problems that the long-suffering inhabitants have to endure. There are unemployment and poverty, unbearable noise, drug-taking, drinking and bullying. They also communicate with a language all their own, often offensive. There are five people involved in this story. Mary, a mother and grandmother, who works at the hospital, has an absent husband and also a secret life. On top of this, for many years she has taken over the care of two teenage boys, Malachi and Tristan. Malachi, the eldest, yearns to be an architect and is struggling through college. He is also pining for his girlfriend Pamela, who is kept a prisoner, locked in her flat by her over-protective father. Tristan is fifteen, bright, but wayward. He has fallen in with a bad crowd and is now taking drugs. To show off to his friends, he taunts and bullies a boy he calls a 'retard'. This boy, Elvis, is over-weight, slow and backward, struggling to remember what his care-home worker has told him, but determined to keep the freedom which his new flat provides. This then is the setting before the disaster occurs, an event that changes the lives of those living in Nightingale Point forever. The story has obvious parallels with Grenfell Tower. It is careful not only to deal with the immediate result of the disaster but also how all their lives are profoundly changed afterwards. In the following five years they emerge as damaged, saddened, but ultimately better human beings. The storyline may not suit all readers, but it is a moving and provocative read. Jane Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of this book to review.

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