Larchfield
The moving, gripping and wonderful debut about finding human connection
$35.06
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
13 March 2018
Summary
‘Mysterious, wondrous, captivating’ Louis de Bernieres
‘We need the courage to choose ourselves’ W. H. Auden
It’s early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she’s excited by the prospect of a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the battle begins for he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786481955 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786481952 |
| Author: | N/a Polly Clark, Polly Clark |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Larchfield is that rarest of rare first novels - a book that actually achieves its great ambition. I found it so immensely readable; it’s brainy, verbally acute and knowing, with an ingenious literary historical premise that it impressively (and artfully) carries off right in front of your eyes. It’s work of considerable talent - Richard Ford
This is a mysterious, wondrous, captivating book - Louis de BernieresA story beautifully and passionately rendered - Margie OrfordWonderful characters and set pieces - Di SpeirsThe sense of danger hanging over the characters kept me reading until past midnight - Marina LewyckaA deft and moving portrayal of isolation - Juliet MushensAbout The Author
N/a Polly Clark
Polly Clark was born in Toronto and lives in Helensburgh on Scotland’s west coast, a few streets away from where W.H. Auden wrote ‘The Orators’. Auden’s struggle as he conceived this electrifying and genre-busting work was an inspiration for her debut novel Larchfield.
As Literature Programmer for Cove Park, she brings writers from all over the world to take part in Scotland’s International Artist Residency. Her three poetry collections have between them won the Eric Gregory Award, been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and twice been selected as one of the Poetry Book Society’s books of the year.
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