Bleakly Hall - Couverture rigide

Di Rollo, Elaine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1444809040 ISBN 13 : 9781444809046

Editeur : Ulverscroft Ltd, 2011

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Bleakly Hall Hydropathic stood like a workhouse, solid and bulky, among the trees. Here and there among the clustered oaks and beeches, great patches of laburnum flowers hung limply, like beards of crystallised sulphur. Looking across a dishevelled lawn at the building's crooked window frames, Monty noticed that the atmosphere too had become muddy and yellowish. She listened. For a moment she thought she could hear music -- the oom-pah oom-pah of a practising tuba -- but then it was gone before she could be sure ...

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'An assured, very funny debut ... it harks back to the loving pastiche of Angela Carter [and] the camp Victoriana of Susanna Clarke and Michel Faber.' Scotland on Sunday

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'Beautifully written and an absolute joy to read ... one of the most enjoyable, intelligent and genuinely humorous books I've read this year.' Scotsman

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Monty and Ada are old friends. They worked together on the frontline in Belgium, where Monty was a nurse and Ada drove ambulances - like the devil. And now, Bleakly Hall hydropathic has brought them together again.

Monty has just arrived to look after the gouty residents - there to take the Hall's curative waters via nozzle, douche and jet - and Ada is the maid and driver. For all those at Bleakly, the end of the Great War has brought changes. Not all of them good.

Monty has a score to settle with the elusive Captain Foxley; Ada misses her wartime sense of purpose; the Blackwood brothers must reinvigorate Bleakly for a new era; Foxley has his own particular ways of keeping his ghosts at bay. But with the crumbling, rumbling hydropathic threatening to blow its top, what will become of the folk thrown together in its bilious embrace?

This wonderfully original novel brings together an irresistible cast of characters - including Bleakly Hall itself - in the wake of one of history's great tragedies. To powerful effect, it combines fizzing comedy with a deeply moving look at the aftermath of war.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ulverscroft Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1444809040
• ISBN 13: 9781444809046
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible