Finding Helen by Colin Greenland
In his late 40s, in a career and a marriage that have each lost their lustre, Chris Gale is someone to whom life never quite kept its promise. One morning, as he is leaving for work, he hears a song on the radio: a song that transports him back to an altogether better, happier time - the early 1970s, when youth, idealism and music, especially the music of singer-songwriter Helen Leonard, might have chnaged the world. Haunted by a raw sense of loss and a growing resentment at how life has turned out, Chris - goaded on by the mysterious, elusive apparition of the 'Beagle Man' - begins a physical, spiritual and emotional quest. Revisiting old haunts and old memories, he searches for an answer to a question that has haunted him, unanswered, for nearly 30 years: what did Fate hold in store for the woman he devoted himself to so entirely all those years ago - the maddening, mercurial, mischievous Helen Leonard... Witty, elegiac, affecting and, as the narrative unrolls, increasingly disturbing, FINDING HELEN is a novel about the consequences of loss - of innocence, idealism and youth, a novel about memory and obsession, betrayal and forgiveness and what might lie beyond the veil...
'A beautifully written tale of betrayal and forgiveness' * Heat *
'This engaging narrative kept me intrigued to the end..As one would expect from Colin Greenland, the novel is a cunning piece of artifice' -- CHARLES PALLISER, author of The Quincunx
'Mature, readable, effortlessly impressive' -- M. JOHN HARRISON, author of Light
'Wonderfully elegiac...what gives it emotional power is Greenland's evocation of time and place and the sense of lost possibilities' -- ROBERT IRWIN, author of The Arabian Nightmare
'Colin Greenland has the kind of mind most writers would kill for. His prose is as flexible and dangerous as a rapier, while his stories go for both the head and the heart' -- Neil Gaiman
'This engaging narrative kept me intrigued to the end..As one would expect from Colin Greenland, the novel is a cunning piece of artifice' -- CHARLES PALLISER, author of The Quincunx
'Mature, readable, effortlessly impressive' -- M. JOHN HARRISON, author of Light
'Wonderfully elegiac...what gives it emotional power is Greenland's evocation of time and place and the sense of lost possibilities' -- ROBERT IRWIN, author of The Arabian Nightmare
'Colin Greenland has the kind of mind most writers would kill for. His prose is as flexible and dangerous as a rapier, while his stories go for both the head and the heart' -- Neil Gaiman
Born in 1954 and educated at Oxford, Colin Greenland is the author of a number of acclaimed science fiction and fantasy novels, including the BSFA and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Take Back Plenty. He also reviews new fiction for the Guardian. Finding Helen is his first contemporary novel. He lives in Cambridge with the author Susanna Clarke.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780552770804 |
| ISBN 10 | 0552770809 |
| Title | Finding Helen |
| Author | Colin Greenland |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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