The Redeemed

Tim Pears

ISBN 10: 1526604396 / ISBN 13: 9781526604392

Edité par Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2019

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2020A love divided. A world torn in two. A return. A redemption. A stirring, exquisitely rendered tale of homecoming; the final instalment in Tim Pears's epic West Country TrilogyIt is 1916. Lottie Prideaux rides the winding lanes of her childhood on her motorcycle, defying the expectations of her class and sex as she trains to be a vet. Meanwhile young Leo Sercombe finds himself a long way from home, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary in the middle of the ocean. Here life is raw, bloody and vivid, with death never more than a heartbeat away.As Leo and Lottie wander in this strange and brave new world, and as war, loss, violence and betrayal conspire to tear asunder the ties that bind the past, present and future together, can even the most fated of returns - and redemptions - hope to come to pass?

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Redeemed
• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1526604396
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781526604392
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 292 grammes

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Synopsis

A love divided. A world torn in two. A return. A redemption.

The final instalment in Tim Pears's spellbinding chronicle of love, exile and belonging in a world on the brink of change

À propos de l?auteur

Tim Pears is the winner of a Lannan Prize and the author of ten novels, including In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In a Land of Plenty (made into a ten-part BBC series), Landed (shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2011, winner of the MJA Open Book Awards 2011) and, most recently, The Horseman (2017) and The Wanderers (2018), first two books in The West Country Trilogy. In America he has received a Lannan Award. He has been Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Reading Round Lector, and has taught creative writing for Arvon, the University of Oxford, First Story and Ruskin College, among others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He and his wife live in Oxford. They have two children.

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