Under the Mountain - Couverture souple

Cooke, Sophie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099469138 ISBN 13 : 9780099469131

Editeur : Arrow, 2009

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

It is the blazing summer of 1981 and Catherine is laid low by childhood illness. Stuck inside her family's sprawling Victorian mansion at the foot of a Highland mountain, she can only look down into the garden and observe the goings-on upon the lawn.

Sam and Rosa, her elder teenage cousins, have come to spend the school holiday in this seemingly idyllic setting, and Catherine savours the brief visits Sam makes to her room. But when Rosa falls in love with Humberto, a young Spanish man camping in the grounds of the house, and Catherine witnesses a violent attack on Sam's beloved dog, the events of that summer take on a darker hue.

Under the Mountain is a fiercely intelligent and beautifully written novel about domestic politics and first loves, and in an unforgettable narrative that is both moving and haunting, Sophie Cooke powerfully exposes hidden inner lives and reveals the sometimes devastating consequences of love and the lies it can tell.

'A wise, ambitious and involving work flowering in psychological insight, it leaves less nuanced epics in its shade' Kevin MacNeil, author of The Stornoway Way

'It is Cooke's dual ability to pick apart beautifully the daytime details of cosy family life while also exploring much loftier themes of God, truth, memory and love that set her aside as a mature, intensely emotional and intelligent writer' Sunday Times

Revue de presse :

"It is Cooke's dual ability to pick apart beautifully the daytime details of cosy family life while also exploring much loftier themes of God, truth, memory and love that set her aside as a mature, intensely emotional and intelligent writer" (Sunday Times)

"This is a complex, clever novel which on the whole succeeds in its high ambitions" (Time Out)

"Sublime writing... Cooke is excellent on unspoken family tensions and her characters' psychological motivations always ring true with a density that recalls Virginia Woolf. Of the younger generation of Scottish writers being published now, Cooke is one of the best." (Scottish Review of Books)

"A wise, ambitious and involving work flowering in psychological insight, it leaves less nuanced epics in its shade" (Kevin MacNeil, author of The Stornoway Way)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Arrow
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0099469138
• ISBN 13: 9780099469131
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384