The Shadow Catcher - Couverture souple

Paver, Michelle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552148725 ISBN 13 : 9780552148726

Editeur : Corgi Books, 2002

Synopsis

'Eden - it's where your life began, Madeleine. It's a place where the current of life runs stronger than anywhere else. In Eden the sun shines more fiercely, the rain strikes harder, and the trees are so green that it hurts your eyes. Eden is beauty and ugliness and joy and madness and decay. Beneath the great old silk-cotton tree, where the orchids and lianas hang right down to the ground, and the fireflies glitter like spangles from dusk till dawn...' Madeleine is left to bring up her younger sister in a remote cottage on the west coast of Scotland after her mother, Rose, has died in childbirth. Tainted by the discovery that she is illegitimate, Madeleine is plunged into poverty in London before marrying out of desperation a wealthy cousin of her father's, who does not know her true identity. And thus she comes to live at the old family estate of Eden in the hills of Jamaica, often talked about by her mother - a beautiful, decaying house with its overgrown garden, lush sugar plantation and myriads of secrets. Rose had loved Eden more than anything, and now Madeleine has to take her place there.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michelle Paver was born in Malawi; her father was South African and her mother is Belgian. They moved to England when she was small and she was brought up in Wimbledon, where she still lives. After gaining a first in biochemistry at Oxford she became a lawyer and was until recently a partner of a large City law firm, specialising in patent litigation. She has now given up the law to write fulltime. She is the author of Without Charity and A Place in the Hills, both published by Corgi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corgi Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552148725
• ISBN 13: 9780552148726
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
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• Personne responsable: non disponible