Mourning Ruby - Couverture rigide

Dunmore, Helen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670914495 ISBN 13 : 9780670914494

Editeur : Viking, 2003

Synopsis

Physical description; 309 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects; Children - Death - Fiction. Bereavement - Fiction. Modern fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Mourning Ruby explores identity and maternal ties and is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's eighth novel.Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history, in the dark outdoors. Who is she, where has she come from and what can she become? Thirty years later, married to Adam, she gives birth to Ruby, and to a new life for herself. But when sudden tragedy changed the course of that life for ever, and all the lives that touch hers, Rebecca is out in the world again, searching . . . 'Moments that bring the reader to tears . . . a fascinating - often brilliant - novel' The Times'Bold and unusual . . . miraculously written, Dunmore's drama of loss and regeneration pieces together shattered lives' Daily Mail'Emotionally restrained, beautifully observed' Daily TelegraphHelen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin: Zennor in Darkness , which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead ; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby; House of Orphan; Counting the Stars and The Betrayal, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer.

Biographie de l'auteur

Helen Dunmore has published seven novels with Viking and Penguin: Zennor In Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell Of Winter which won the Orange Prize; Talking to The Dead, Your Blue Eyed Boy, With Your Crooked Heart and The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer. She lives in Bristol.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0670914495
• ISBN 13: 9780670914494
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320