The Crossing - Couverture souple

Miller, Andrew

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444753509 ISBN 13 : 9781444753509

Editeur : Sceptre, 2015

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'His writing is vivid, precise and constantly surprising. It reads easily, suspends life until it is read and is a source of wonder and delight'
Hilary Mantel, The Sunday Times

Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This young woman who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all began.

He feels impelled to rescue her, to reach her, though Maud appears to need no-one. She's a woman with a talent for survival, who loves to sail, preferably on her own - and who will turn to the sea for refuge when a crisis comes, embarking on a voyage that will test her to the utmost, that will change everything . . .

From the author of Pure comes a viscerally honest, hypnotic portrait of modern love and motherhood, the lure of the sea and the ultimate unknowability of others. It confirms Andrew Miller's position as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Andrew Miller is the author of the novels Ingenious Pain, Casanova, Oxygen, The Optimists, One Morning Like A Bird and Pure. His awards include the Costa Book of the Year and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and he has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Whitbread Novel of the Year.

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

On the surface, Maud and Tim seem ill-matched. Maud is a scientist, an only child from a modest background; Tim is a musician from a large, rich family. She is emotionally cool, he wears his heart on his sleeve. Yet they make a home together, have a child and restore an old yacht. One day they will sail it, all three.

Then a dreadful tragedy occurs. The strange thing is, Maud appears unscathed by it. Tim's family are horrified - what is wrong with her? She tells no one when she begins to feel a ghostly presence, or of her plan to sail single-handed across the Atlantic. Maybe she can escape what is pursuing her . . .

Ranging from the West Country to an isolated orphanage in Brazil, this is the mesmerising story of an enigmatic woman and her emotional journey - as deeply affecting as her physical journey becomes nail-bitingly dramatic.

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