Poolbeg Press
The Way We Danced
Product Code:
9781781999486
ISBN13:
9781781999486
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New
$16.46
Ruth Deacon s academic career is in the doldrums, her marriage is in shreds, an elderly relative with dementia has become an impossible burden. Ruth needs a miracle. It comes in the form of The Memory Book . Edith Barratt, an elderly writer seeing out her last days in a nursing home, has decided to entrust a lifetime of writings to Ruth, to publish after her death. And, by also giving her the Memory Book, she breaks a lifetime of silence about a youthful love that has dominated her entire life. Ruth eagerly seizes on this material it could rescue her career. When she discovers that Edith s one-time love was an idealistic soldier of the Third Reich, she is even more encouraged. But then she finds herself faced with a challenge: that of exploring the gap between memory and desire, reality and illusion. Did Edith s young German truly love her? And what is the significance of a half-remembered melody sung by Fred Astaire? Starting in Belfast, moving through pre-war Berlin and returning to Ireland s tentative and fragile peace of 1995, Sophia Hillan s new novel traces a path to those things that cannot, in the end, be taken away.
| Author: Sophia Hillan |
| Publisher: Poolbeg Press |
| Publication Date: Nov 03, 2016 |
| Number of Pages: 336 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1781999481 |
| ISBN-13: 9781781999486 |
The Way We Danced
$16.46
Ruth Deacon s academic career is in the doldrums, her marriage is in shreds, an elderly relative with dementia has become an impossible burden. Ruth needs a miracle. It comes in the form of The Memory Book . Edith Barratt, an elderly writer seeing out her last days in a nursing home, has decided to entrust a lifetime of writings to Ruth, to publish after her death. And, by also giving her the Memory Book, she breaks a lifetime of silence about a youthful love that has dominated her entire life. Ruth eagerly seizes on this material it could rescue her career. When she discovers that Edith s one-time love was an idealistic soldier of the Third Reich, she is even more encouraged. But then she finds herself faced with a challenge: that of exploring the gap between memory and desire, reality and illusion. Did Edith s young German truly love her? And what is the significance of a half-remembered melody sung by Fred Astaire? Starting in Belfast, moving through pre-war Berlin and returning to Ireland s tentative and fragile peace of 1995, Sophia Hillan s new novel traces a path to those things that cannot, in the end, be taken away.
| Author: Sophia Hillan |
| Publisher: Poolbeg Press |
| Publication Date: Nov 03, 2016 |
| Number of Pages: 336 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1781999481 |
| ISBN-13: 9781781999486 |
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