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IrishPenJen (United Kingdom) (2010/03/22):
Description:
Simone is 38, a district judge whose husband Donald is on the verge of bankruptcy and breakdown. Whilst she is at court, passing judgement on the lives of others, Donald stays at home and looks after their two young sons. One morning a letter arrives; someone she has tried to forget has not forgotten her and Simone's private history is about to collide with her public world.Review:
Simone is clever and successful - a district judge, no less. But her architect husband has been made redundant and is about to be declared bankrupt. They have two small sons and huge debts. Simone also has a dangerous secret, buried in the distant past but about to erupt and threaten her job. Winner of the 1996 Orange Prize for A Spell of Winter, Dunmore is a writer of distinction. (Kirkus UK) What the papers say:
'A brilliantly plotted. thrilling fable unravelling dark, sad secrets' Mail on Sunday'Terrific' Daily Telegraph'A highly-charged, haunting novel' The Times Author's biography:
Helen Dunmore has published nine novels with Penguin, including: Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer.
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