The Shadow Year
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (713 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1455554332 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
But utopia-building can be fraught with unexpected peril, and when the fate of the group is left eerily unclear, Lila turns her attention to untangling a web of secrets to uncover the shocking truth of what happened that fateful year, in order to come to terms with her own loss and build a new future for herself. Surrounded by blueprints and plaster dust, though, she finds herself drawn into the story of a group of idealistic university grads from thirty years before, who'd thrown off the shackles of bourgeois city life to claim the cottage and rely only on each other on the land. Suspenseful and moving, with a deep secret at its heart, THE SHADOW YEAR is Hannah Richell's breakout book.. Still grieving the death of her prematurely delivered infant, Lila finds a welcome distraction in renovating a country house she's recently inherited
"Compelling and Bewitching" according to Liz Barnsley. First of all thank you kindly to Hannah Richell and Orion (UK Publisher) for arranging a review copy of this book when I added it to my wishlist. I was very grateful as it had really caught my eye. And rightly so it turns out1980. Five friends, not quite ready to embark on life in the fast lane having finished University, come across an old cottage in the Peak District and decide to ". Well worth the read I really enjoyed this book and it's complex characters and I like books that I cannot predict what is going to happen which I tend to try and do as I go along and get quite disinterested in predictable books, well I thought I had this books' ending sorted BUT not so!! Very surprising !!! A good book. Would recommend.. "A bit darker, but good" according to Ionia Froment. First of all, I would like to say that this is a beautifully written book and the issues I had with it were nothing to do with the word choices or quality of the writing, but rather the delivery of the story.This book is written coming from two different perspectives in two different time periods. It wasn't that it was difficult to distinguish which section I was in, but rather that I
They decide to embark on an experiment to stay in the cottage for one year and live off the land. --Carol Gladstein . Beautifully written and skillfully woven, this is a compelling tale of tragedy and forgiveness. Told by different narrators in alternating chapters, Richell’s latest novel follows the lives of the original group of friends and the ongoing drama of their isolated communal lives while also following Lila as she throws herself into cottage renovations and discovers the healing powers of living among the beauty and simplicity of nature. Lila Bailey, a London decorator mourning the death of her infant daughter, receives a mysterious package in the mail containing the deed to the property. Richell, whose House of Tides (2010) was shortlisted for the Australian Independent Bookseller Best
Hannah Richell was born in England. She now lives with her husband and two young children in Sydney, Australia. After graduating from the University of Nottingham, she worked in the book publishing and film industries.