Undressing Stone - Couverture souple

Manuel, Hazel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1788640144 ISBN 13 : 9781788640145

Editeur : Cinnamon Press, 2018

Synopsis

'If you were able, how would you redesign your life?' Sian Evans is a feisty yet emotionally aloof divorcee with a secret. When her shrink asks her this question she takes it seriously. Giving up her stable home and job in Wales, Sian travels alone to a forgotten corner of rural France to begin a new life in a borrowed cottage.

Undressing Stone is a mysterious tale which flirts with the gothic as it interweaves Sian s conversations with her psychiatrist, with her newly reclusive life in France. There she meets an enigmatic sculptor with a penchant for working in the nude. Will their odd encounters encourage Sian to admit a truth she has avoided for years? And what are the consequences if she does?

In a narrative that moves between caustic observation and the richly sensual, this is a novel that challenges many of our taken for granted assumptions about modern-day life, and that celebrates the unconventional.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hazel Manuel is a UK born novelist who began writing after a career in education, first as a teacher/lecturer and, later, as a business leader within the education sector. She now lives and writes in Paris where she hosts 'Paris Writers Working Lunches'. Hazel's first novel, Kanyakumari was written over three trips to India and was the winner of the 2013 Cinnamon Press Novel award. Her second novel The Geranium Woman was published in 2016 by Cinnamon Press. She is currently working on a psychological thriller.

It is important to Hazel to discover and explore that which she finds authentic in herself, in other people and in the ideas which inform the ways in which we live our lives and it is this search for authenticity that characterises her novels. What Hazel hopes to achieve through themes of uncertainty, loss, obsession, power, change, fear, and of questioning life and the self, is that the reader travels with her characters through an archetypical inner journey that is fundamentally satisfying because it could equally be their own.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cinnamon Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788640144
• ISBN 13: 9781788640145
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible