novels

THE VOICE tells of a daughter's vigil for her mother, and her lost childhood. In F SHARP, Masako is married to Freya's former boyfriend. The only other thing the two women have in common is the piano - though their experiences are worlds apart.

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Rachel and Andrew; Tilly and Grace. A family of four. But then Rachel decided things are no longer working, and asks Andrew to move out - and suddenly, everything is different. Devotion tells the story of a family's break-up and a father's breakdown and is told from all four points of view. It is uncompromising in its reminder of how easily the lives we think we have can slip through our fingers.

Frank's house on the Somerset Levels is surrounded by floodwater and filled with the guilty silences that bind family members together - and sometimes keep them apart. His inner world is full of his sister Iris and their hot childhhod summer, which was full of local legends. The past and present begin to merge, and the stories cover deeply buried memories. Black Dirt explores how stories shape a child's imagination, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize.

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