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A powerful novel about belonging, race, British India and contemporary Britain, by the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of Pigeon.
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From the award-winning author of Pigeon
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384 pages
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16 April 2020
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Summary
‘A TRULY CONVINCING STATE-OF-THE-NATION NOVEL’ Daily Mail
‘I LOVED THIS… MAGDA IS A REAL STAND-OUT CHARACTER FOR ME IN BOOKS I’VE READ RECENTLY, I CAN’T QUITE STOP THINKING ABOUT HER’ Jane Garvey, BBC Woman’s HourMagda is a former scientist with a bad temper and a sharp tongue, living alone in a huge house by the sea and getting through carers at a rate of knots. Until Susheela arrives, carrying life with her: grief for her mother’…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474609456 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474609457 |
| Author: | Alys Conran |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 34mm |
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Critics Review
Conran’s fierce, compassionate second novel explores the complexities of the Raj and contemporary Britain through the eyes of three brilliantly realised characters, who are finely drawn and entirely believable. - Mail on Sunday
Packs a powerful punch and makes you smile while breaking your heart. - Woman’s WeeklyConran’s work is subtle and complex: there is no one right story about the Empire. Instead we are offered multiple views, ironies and contradictions that only one of most talented, tender writers in Wales could portray. - New Welsh ReviewFierce, compassionate, angry, but above all, heart-breakingly real. I was drawn in from the very first page. - Claire Fuller, author of BITTER ORANGEAbout The Author
Alys Conran
ALYS CONRAN’s first novel PIGEON (Parthian, 2016) won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2017, the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award, the Wales Arts Review People’s Choice Award and was shortlised for the International Dylan Thomas Prize.
Originally from North Wales, she spent several years in Edinburgh and Barcelona before returning to the area to live and write. She is now Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bangor and has been selected as the Hay Festival International Fellow for 2019-2020.Her late father, also a writer, was born in Kharagpur, Bengal.Returns
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