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Mouse and the Cossacks

Mouse and the Cossacks

by PaulWilson (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

    $4.86
Synopsis

Mouse is a determined ten-year-old girl, intelligent, curious, funny, but also strangely, perhaps defiantly, silent. Her mum's a lawyer but you get the feeling there's something behind their family history, something that happened that makes Mum move herself and her daughter out of town to an isolated house in the Pennines. Mouse is what's called an elective mute, and a worry to her mum. But she's cute as a fox too. Nosy Mouse de Bruin investigates the strange man/boy at the bottom of the garden, the damaged son of a neighbour, but becomes most fascinated by the remaining possessions in her house of the old man, William, a retired history teacher who lived there before being moved to a nursing home. Like a detective she researches his recent movements, his links with the neighbour and, most disturbingly, his connections with his distant and secret wartime past. Her research transports her towards a wartime army captain in the Italian Tyrol and the predicament of the captured Cossacks. This part of William's extraordinary life affects her so profoundly that clever, quiet Mouse is thrown into turmoil - and the possibility of change.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Tindal Street Press
Published: 06 Jun 2013
ISBN 10: 1906994447
ISBN 13: 9781906994440
Book Overview: 'The first thing you have to know about me is that I have no voice.' This is the story of a curious girl, and the threads of a life she's determined to unravel.

Media Reviews
Two lives, two ages, two secrets cleverly and touchingly braided together by a writer of true merit and humanity -- Jim Crace
Striking ... Betrayals and the truths behind them are at the heart of this powerful book * Guardian *
Moving and beautifully crafted -- David Evans * Financial Times *
A masterpiece in characterisation ... superbly realised ... an evolving and beautifully written novel, and a well-paced one, with the home truths about the young girl near the start of her life, and the complex old man looking back on his, gradually swimming into focus. Such is our emotional investment in both them that we long for a meeting that we know can never happen. All Paul Wilson's novels to date have been highly acclaimed, and Mouse and The Cossacks continues his high standard for intelligent and affecting work -- Alastair Mabbott * Herald *
Paul Wilson deftly draws the reader through a landscape of loss and loneliness towards unspeakable events buried in the past. An absorbing story about guilt and forgiveness -- Alison Moore, Booker shortlisted author of The Lighthouse
Praise for The Visiting Angel: 'Paul Wilson deserves his place on the top table with McEwan, Barnes and the like * Bookmunch *
A fascinating and compassionate novel * The Times *
A deeply impressive novel . . . at once surprising, thematically rich and often very moving * Observer *
Stunning, shattering and moving * Daily Mirror *
4 stars * The Lady *
Author Bio
Paul Wilson's novels include The Visiting Angel, Noah, Noah and Someone to Watch Over Me. He lives in Lancashire and is a consultant in care management. In 1997 he won the Portico Prize for Literature for Do White Whales Sing at the End of the World?