The Beacon by Susan Hill
'The farmhouse was called The Beacon and they had been born and reared there, May, Colin, Frank and Berenice, but only May had been left for the last 27 years...' May had been the clever daughter and she had escaped the shelter of The Beacon, just once, to go to university. But in London she had been pursued by nameless terrors, the victim of fears and anxieties. Now she was the spinster daughter, the one who stayed, who nursed her father after his accident and looked after her mother in her old age. Frank was the one who got away. He married and moved on. But why does no one ever mention Frank's name?
"It is a little masterpiece" Daily Telegraph
Susan Hill's novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelyn Rhys awards and been shortlisted for the Booker. Her books are set texts for GCSEs and A levels. She is the author of the ghost stories The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and The Man in the Picture, and of the series of crime novels featuring policeman Simon Serrailler. Susan Hill lives in Gloucestershire, where she runs her own small publishing firm, Long Barn Books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701183400 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701183403 |
| Title | The Beacon |
| Author | Susan Hill |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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