The Way We Danced
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The Way We Danced by Sophia Hillan
Ruth Deacon s academic career is in the doldrums, her marriage is in shreds, an elderly relative with dementia has become an impossible burden. Ruth needs a miracle. It comes in the form of The Memory Book . Edith Barratt, an elderly writer seeing out her last days in a nursing home, has decided to entrust a lifetime of writings to Ruth, to publish after her death. And, by also giving her the Memory Book, she breaks a lifetime of silence about a youthful love that has dominated her entire life. Ruth eagerly seizes on this material it could rescue her career. When she discovers that Edith s one-time love was an idealistic soldier of the Third Reich, she is even more encouraged. But then she finds herself faced with a challenge: that of exploring the gap between memory and desire, reality and illusion. Did Edith s young German truly love her? And what is the significance of a half-remembered melody sung by Fred Astaire? Starting in Belfast, moving through pre-war Berlin and returning to Ireland s tentative and fragile peace of 1995, Sophia Hillan s new novel traces a path to those things that cannot, in the end, be taken away.
Hillan, Sophia: - Sophia Hillan was Assistant Director of the Queen's University of Belfast's Institute of Irish Studies. She is the author of a number of critical studies on Michael McLaverty and Sam Hanna Bell and of one novel, The Friday Tree. She is best known for her biography of Jane's Austen's nieces, Marianne, Louisa and Cassandra Knight: May, Lou and Cass: Jane Austen's Nieces in Ireland. She lives and works in Belfast.
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| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781781999486 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781999481 |
| Titel | The Way We Danced |
| Autor | Sophia Hillan |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Poolbeg Press Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2016-09-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 336 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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