A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore - ISBN: 9780241986523
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Orphaned siblings’ forbidden love hides dark secrets in a haunted house.

A Spell of Winter

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    20 August 2019

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Summary

Winner of the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction, now a Penguin Essential

Catherine and her brother, Rob, don’t know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - ‘the man from nowhere’ - they create a refuge against their family’s dark secrets - and the outside world as it moves towards the First World War. As time passes their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory - but they are not as alone in th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241986523
ISBN-10:0241986524
Author:Helen Dunmore
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:20 August 2019
Weight:188g
Dimensions:181mm x 112mm x 22mm
Series:Penguin Essentials
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Critics Review

A marvellous novel about forbidden passions * Daily Mail *An intensely gripping book…written so seductively that some passages sing out from the page, like music for the eyes * Sunday Times *A hugely involving story which often stops you in your tracks with the beauty of its writing * Observer *An electrifying and original talent, a writer whose style is characterized by a lyrical, dreamy intensity * Guardian *

About The Author

Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children’s author and poet. She published twelve novels including Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She was posthumously awarded the Costa 2017 prize for her poetry collection Inside the Wave.

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