Getting Back Brahms - Couverture souple

Cheek, Mavis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571192270 ISBN 13 : 9780571192274

Editeur : Faber and Faber, 1999

Synopsis

Diana owns a bookshop, is thirty-something and single again after a long relationship. The Brahms Requiem was once her favourite piece of music. Now she cannot listen to it without it stirring painful memories of her old love. She is determined to supplant the old memories with something new and, in her quest for a memory to superimpose on the past, joins the team intending to open the Academy of Forward Literature at Hassocks Hall . . .

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mavis Cheek was born and grew up in Wimbledon. She began her working life at Editions Alecto, the contemporary art publishers. After Alecto, she attended Hillcroft College for Women from where she graduated in Arts. After her daughter Bella was born, she began her writing career in earnest; journalism and travel writing at first, then short stories, and eventually, in 1988, her novel Pause Between Acts was published by Bodley Head and won the She/John Menzies First Novel Prize. She is the author of thirteen novels novels including Mrs Fytton's Country Life, Janice Gentle Gets Sexy and, most recently, Amenable Women which was described in The Times as 'a brilliantly funny, warm, intelligent read'. She now lives and writes in the heart of the English countryside..

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber and Faber
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571192270
• ISBN 13: 9780571192274
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible