The Telling

by Miranda Seymour (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $5.84

  Estranged from her family and from her past by a horrifying episode, Nancy Brewster lives as a hermit in her family home. But now she is finding her lonely life intolerable and looks back over her agonised life. Does her journal reveal the truth, or is it an attempt to defend an unforgivable crime?

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.27

  'Miranda Seymour tells a gripping story, and with consummate skill has converted a strange event from literary lore ...into the art of a fine and subtle fiction' John Banville 'This is a novel with the tension of a thriller and yet the resonance of a deeply contemplative work. It is an experiment that works superbly' Margaret Forster, Literary Review 'The Telling is a mesmerizing account of a mind bent, but not broken. Seymour writes with a beautiful surety of touch and tone, loading every compact sentence with layers of meaning' Kate Saunders, Independent 'Miranda Seymour is that rare contemporary phenomenon, the good biographer who is also a good novelist. With her new novel she joins Peter Ackroyd near the summit of this two-handed life ...This is a compelling and frightening book' Candia McWilliam, New Statesman 'This is a richly patterned work which accommodates a vibrant variety of characters, relationships and scenes. It's a mark of Seymour's ability that she manages to evoke so many different settings and sets' Harry Ritchie, Daily Mail