by Adele Geras (Author)
An extended family gathers in late August to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of its formidable matriarch, Leonora. She is the daughter of the famous Edwardian painter Ethan Walsh, whose paintings are kept at the family home, Willow Court in Wiltshire. At Leonora's house party will be her daughters, Gwen and Rilla, whom she raised alone after she was widowed in her late twenties; Rilla's stepdaughter Beth; and Gwen's husband and three children with their spouses and lovers. One outsider joins the group: Sean Everard, a television director who's making a documentary about the life and work of Ethan Walsh. All families have their dark side and Leonora's is no exception. By the time the marquee is dismantled and all the guests have gone their separate ways, two shocking past events have come to light, to rock complacency and change for ever the lives of Leonora and her daughters.
Format: Paperback
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 01 Jan 2003
ISBN 10: 0752851551
ISBN 13: 9780752851556
Book Overview: For years we have been asking: Where's the new SHELL SEEKERS? The answer: Here! FACING THE LIGHT was the subject of a frenzied auction with seven publishers bidding Adele Geras is an award-winning children's author and poet. Her novel TROY was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Carnegie Medal. Foreign rights sold for huge sums in eleven countries so far. FACING THE LIGHT bears comparison with the best: not just THE SHELL SEEKERS but THE CAZALET CHRONICLE and A SUITABLE BOY. Orion will be backing FACING THE LIGHT with their biggest marketing campaign of the spring. Adele's website will launch in January 2003: www adelegeras.com
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