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The Long Delirious Burning Blue
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9781914613463
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9781914613463
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THE FIRST NOVEL BY THE AUTHOROF WORD-OF-MOUTH BESTSELLER IFWOMEN ROSE ROOTED 'You and me against theworld, you used to sing. In the days before it became you and me againsteach other.' Cat Munro - who has never takena day off in her working life - quits her corporate job and starts flyinglessons in a small plane over the Arizona desert, confronting her fear not onlyof death, but of life. Her mother, Laura, moves back to the Scottish villagewhere she spent the first years of her marriage to Cat's abusive father. Thoughthey are apart, the past connects mother and daughter, haunts them, binds them. From the excoriating heat ofthe Arizona desert to the misty flow of a Highland sea-loch, Sharon Blackie'ssoaring first novel presents us with the transformative power of landscape, andof storytelling, in women's lives. Above all, The LongDelirious Burning Blue is a story of courage, endurance and redemption. 'It isthat rarity, a first novel that smacks of not merely confidence, but authority... The ending is powerful,filmic, and achieving the kind of symmetry that novels often aspire to, butrarely reach.' The Scotsman
| Author: Sharon Blackie |
| Publisher: NA |
| Publication Date: Apr 09, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1914613465 |
| ISBN-13: 9781914613463 |
The Long Delirious Burning Blue
$16.95
$16.09
Sale 5%
THE FIRST NOVEL BY THE AUTHOROF WORD-OF-MOUTH BESTSELLER IFWOMEN ROSE ROOTED 'You and me against theworld, you used to sing. In the days before it became you and me againsteach other.' Cat Munro - who has never takena day off in her working life - quits her corporate job and starts flyinglessons in a small plane over the Arizona desert, confronting her fear not onlyof death, but of life. Her mother, Laura, moves back to the Scottish villagewhere she spent the first years of her marriage to Cat's abusive father. Thoughthey are apart, the past connects mother and daughter, haunts them, binds them. From the excoriating heat ofthe Arizona desert to the misty flow of a Highland sea-loch, Sharon Blackie'ssoaring first novel presents us with the transformative power of landscape, andof storytelling, in women's lives. Above all, The LongDelirious Burning Blue is a story of courage, endurance and redemption. 'It isthat rarity, a first novel that smacks of not merely confidence, but authority... The ending is powerful,filmic, and achieving the kind of symmetry that novels often aspire to, butrarely reach.' The Scotsman
| Author: Sharon Blackie |
| Publisher: NA |
| Publication Date: Apr 09, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1914613465 |
| ISBN-13: 9781914613463 |
