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Sandlands (Paperback)
Rosy Thornton
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R285
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Discovery Miles 2 340
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A collection of linked short stories, all set in and around the
small village of Blaxhall in the sandlings of coastal Suffolk,
which is the reason for the title, 'Sandlands'. The collection is
inspired by the landscape of the area and its flora and fauna, as
well as by its folklore and historical and cultural heritage. Six
of the twelve stories focus around a particular bird, animal,
wildflower or insect characteristic of the locality, from barn owl
to butterfly. The book might be described as a collection of ghost
stories; in fact, while one or two stories involve a more or less
supernatural element, each of them deals in various ways with the
tug of the past upon the present, and explores how past and present
can intersect in unexpected ways. The stories uncover what is real
and enduring beneath the surface of things.
A warm and uplifting story of how a woman falls in love with a
place and its people: a landscape, a community and a fragile way of
life. A rural idyll: that's what Catherine is seeking when she
sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the
Cevennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children
grown, she is free to make a new start, and her dream is to set up
in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place
when you're no longer just here on holiday. There is French
bureaucracy to contend with, not to mention the mountain weather,
and the reserve of her neighbours, including the intriguing Patrick
Castagnol. And that's before the arrival of Catherine's sister,
Bryony...
Deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, Laura is living alone with her
12-year old daughter Beth, in the old tollhouse known as Ninepins.
She's in the habit of renting out the pumphouse, once a fen
drainage station, to students, but this year she's been persuaded
to take in 17-year-old Willow, a care-leaver with a dubious past,
on the recommendation of her social worker, Vince. Is Willow
dangerous or just vulnerable? It's possible she was once guilty of
arson; her mother's hippy life is gradually revealed as something
more sinister; and Beth is in trouble at school and out of it.
Laura's carefully ordered world seems to be getting out of control.
With the tension of a thriller, NINEPINS explores the idea of
family, and the volatile and changing relationships between mothers
and daughters, in a landscape that is beautiful but - as they all
discover - perilous.
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