Summary
Powerful, lyrical prose. Hillmore’s bravura depiction of this unrelenting nightmare is a striking and compelling reflection of the world as it may yet become’ - Guardian
To the island of Mannar - once an enchanted paradise, now polluted, its wildlife dead or dying - comes Sir Alexander Haye, zoologist and TV personality, determined to acquire one of the last of the island’s elephants for London Zoo. A mother elephant and her calf are procured and the task of escorting them to the capi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099283348 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099283344 |
| Author: | Susan Hillmore |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2001 |
| Weight: | 101g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 9mm |
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Hillmore’s fine novel memorably depicts the processes of both private and public disintegration in spare, vivid prose
Hillmore’s fine novel memorably depicts the processes of both private and public disintegration in spare, vivid prose * Mail on Sunday *A jeweled horror of a book * Spectator *
About The Author
Susan Hillmore
Susan Hillmore is a painter and a novelist, living in Gloucestershire. She studied Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art. Her first novel, The Greenhouse, was shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year.
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