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Fado (Paperback)
Susan Lund
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His perfect life is shattered when a mugger kills his fiancee and
unborn child. How does he cope? How does he grieve? Will vengeance
save his life or swallow him? Set in the aftermath of 9/11 and the
Iraq war, GROVELANDS explores themes of vengeance and grief.
Opening with a murder, ending with a coffin, PECCATA LUNDI depicts
the Sins of the Lunds. And some of them are very black indeed A
tale of cruelty and hilarity, warfare and family fights, great
daughters and evil, this memoir in the form of a novel contains a
host of real-life Dickensian characters.
Mental illness, grief, bereavement - a study of people in extremis;
also the strength, love, friendship which survives such an
experience.
Crooks, whores, topless dancers, sex-clubs. The whore-house in the
London council-flat. The young girl growing up without a father.
The boy obsessed by a psychopath. Racialist tensions in the 1970s.
Lust. Murder. Morality. God. Any of these of interest to you?
They're all here in this book
London, 1964: Errol Flynn's double meets Gwin, half his age. He is
from Hollywood, she is from the North of England. He wants to
write, she is having a book published...
Against the background of the Napoleonic wars, Beethoven's
illegitimate son by his Immortal Beloved is brought up in Frankfurt
by her husband whilst Beethoven in Vienna adopts his late brother's
child. Beethoven writes the Missa Solemnis to awaken his son's
spiritual awareness after the four-year old boy is stricken by
illness. Reader reactions: 'Powerful & moving.' 'Enjoyable
& informative... a touching love story.' 'An extraordinary
story, beautifully told.'
Formula One. As the cars roar round the track, one fan screams out
his grief over the murder of his wife - by the brother of his new
wife. RACE TO WIN approaches 9/11 & the Iraq war from the
standpoint of a man violently stripped of all he held dear, who is
now trying to re-build his life. Its theme is redemption,
forgiveness - or vengeance...
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