Sanctuary Line
$29.01
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2013
Summary
Solitary, nostalgic Liz Crane returns to her family’s now-deserted farmhouse to study the migratory habits of the Monarch butterfly.
A rich family history - all the anecdotes and blarney of successful Irish immigrants - is now tainted with sadness. Her cousin Amanda, a gifted military strategist, has been killed in Afghanistan, a loss foreshadowed by the earlier disappearance of her charismatic father.
Reflecting on the fragility and transcience of human life and relations - m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857386397 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0857386395 |
| Author: | Jane Urquhart |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2013 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 10mm |
| Series: | MacLehose Press |
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‘Urquhart’s writing is poetic, in the sense that it is beautifully compact and restrained when describing the most powerful emotions’ The Times.
‘Urquhart handles the layers of narrative with lyrical aplomb’ Susan Elderkin, Financial Times. * Financial Times *‘A delicate work of rare beauty’ Lucy Popescu, Independent. * Independent *‘Urquhart’s style is reminiscent of that of the Pulitzer-winner Marilynne Robinson’ Mary Morrissey, Irish Times. * Irish Times *‘Emotional and atmospheric’ The Lady. * Lady *‘Urquhart’s writing is poetic, in the sense that it is beautifully compact and restrained when describing the most powerful emotions’ The Times. * The Times *‘Urquhart’s prose is lovingly and skilfully constructed … Her sparse plot dances and weaves like a butterfly’ Sunday Business Post. * Sunday Business Post *
About The Author
Jane Urquhart
Jane Urquhart is the author of six novels including Away (1993), The Stone Carvers (2001) and A Map of Glass (2005), as well as a collection of short fiction and four volumes of poetry. She has written a biography of L.M. Montgomery and is the editor of the Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories. She lives in Ontario and spends part of the year in Ireland.
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