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The Ice Is Singing
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This is the story of a woman on the run from her husband, her children, herself. Driving through the snowbound Yorkshire countryside, stopping at anonymous bed and breakfasts, prepared to do anything to duck memory, she begins to write stories. Not about her own life, but about other parents, other children: stories to keep her own life at bay . . .
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One of the most heart rending poignant and engaging books I've read in many a year. Moving from fiction, she writes as a means of escape from the dark circumstances of her current life, the achingly beautiful moments she recounts, to eventually facing ice cold wind of her reality. Wonderful book and highly recommended!
What a miserable book! Maybe I read too much Dostoevsky at a formative age but, reading this, I realised that if there is suffering I expect there to be meaning to be found in it. While I certainly don't want a facile happy ending I want the characters, however degraded they are by circumstances, to be granted dignity. Here, the characters' misery is all so pointless and unrelieved that it left me feeling as bleak as the snowbound moor that Marion drives across.
Marion is running away from her li ...more
Marion is running away from her li ...more
Found at a second hand bookshop in London, a First Edition!
Where did it go? not registered with bookcrossing, no journal here... is it in the house or where?
Where did it go? not registered with bookcrossing, no journal here... is it in the house or where?
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Jane Rogers is an award winning author of nine novels, including The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Man-Booker longlisted and winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award 2012.
Other works include Mr Wroe's Virgins (which she dramatised for the BAFTA-nominated BBC drama series), Her Living Image (Somerset Maugham Award) and Promised Lands (Writers Guild Best Fiction Award). Her story collection Hitting Trees wit ...more
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“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.”
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