On Loving Josiah
$34.38
- Paperback
330 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2011
Summary
Josiah Horatio Nelson is born to unusual parents. Having met in a psychiatric hospital, they decide to bring up their child far away from the constraints of conventional society. But social services soon intervene to remove him from his idyllic home. Friendless, ostracised and bullied, Josiah is saved from despair when he meets his Latin tutor, Thomas Marius, with whom he soon forms an intense relationship. Marius takes him to Italy on an educational visit but returns to find he is suspected of child abuse…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781906413798 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1906413797 |
| Author: | Olivia Fane |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Arcadia Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 330 |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
“Fane’s deft use of metaphor and inclusion keep the narrative flowing smoothly…Fane unearths thorny moral ambiguities, forcing the reader to consider circumstances in which the unthinkable may be the only sound option.” – Reviewer “Publishers Weekly”
About The Author
Olivia Fane
Olivia Fane was born in 1960. She studied Classics at Cambridge, trained as a probation officer and worked as a psychiatric social worker. She lives with her husband and five sons in West Sussex. This is her third novel.
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