A Lifetime Burning

A Lifetime Burning

by Linda Gillard (Author)

Synopsis

Greedy for experience but determined to be good, Flora Dunbar spends a lifetime seeking love, trying to build a future out of the wreckage of her past - an eccentric childhood spent in the shadow of her musical twin, Rory; early marriage to Hugh, a clergyman twice her age; motherhood, which brings her Theo, the son she cannot love; and middle-age, when she finds brief happiness in a scandalous affair with her nephew, Colin.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 408
Publisher: Transita
Published: 16 Jun 2006

ISBN 10: 1905175256
ISBN 13: 9781905175253

Media Reviews
'disturbing themes, sensitively explored... an emotional avalanche' Lochcarron Reading Group 'a tightly woven literary fabric of many emotional threads...an engrossing and satisfying read.' Well? Magazine 'a compelling, touching, tender book with many beautifully crafted and heart wrenching parts...a surprising read.' Depression Alliance
Author Bio
Linda Gillard lives and writes on the Isle of Skye. Prior to relocating here with her family to write full-time Linda previously twelve years she wrote a humour column for Ideal Home before turning her hand to primary school teaching in Cambridgeshire. She and her family have since relocated to Skye where she now writes full-time. Her first published novel Emotional Geology (Transita) has been widely reviewed.