The Way We Danced by Sophia Hillan

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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ISBN 13	9781781999486
ISBN 10	1781999481
Title	The Way We Danced
Author	Sophia Hillan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Poolbeg Press Ltd
Year published	2016-09-01
Number of pages	336
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