Mercury Falling
$34.93
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2019
Summary
In the post-war chill, people will do almost anything to stay alive.
MERCURY FALLING, from the prize-winning Robert Edric, is an atmospheric story of a man with nothing to lose.
‘Shows once more Edric’s unassuming yet remarkable talent for conjuring up the lives of his characters’ The Sunday Times
The Fens, 1954. Many people have lost everything. Others just want the chance to begin again. For Jimmy Devlin, it’s a little of both …
It has been another tough wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784160357 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784160350 |
| Author: | Robert Edric |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 20mm |
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Shows once more Edric’s unassuming yet remarkable talent for conjuring up the lives of his characters
Shows once more Edric’s unassuming yet remarkable talent for conjuring up the lives of his characters * The Sunday Times *
About The Author
Robert Edric
Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include Winter Garden (James Tait Black Prize winner 1986), A New Ice Age (runner-up for the Guardian Fiction Prize 1986), The Book of the Heathen (winner of the WH Smith Literary Award 2000), Peacetime (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002), Gathering the Water (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006) and In Zodiac Light (shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Prize 2010). His most recent novel is The Monster’s Lament. He lives in Yorkshire.
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