The Day Before the Fire by Miranda France
'Intelligent, insightful, enlightening and gripping' ML Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans When fire devastates Turney House, Londons finest stately home, the immaculate Lady Alexandra Marchant demands that everything be restored exactly as it was the day before the fire.
A subtle and deeply satisfying book.. if there is such a thing as an 'authentic' writer, then France certainly makes the grade -- Andrew Wilson * Independent *
Employing scalpel-sharp prose, Miranda France delicately dissects a legacy of past hurts and probes the possibility for repair and restitution -- Eithne Farry * Mail on Sunday *
France skilfully weaves together a believable, deftly characterised and scholarly tale that never lets its keen-eyed observations about London, the heritage and social class occlude an emerging story of Ros's necessary excavation of her own past -- Patricia Nicol * Sunday Times *
A fine eye for the telling detail... France is very good at capturing the ambiguities of the heritage industry -- Edward Behrens * Literary Review *
Intelligent, insightful, enlightening and gripping -- M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans
Employing scalpel-sharp prose, Miranda France delicately dissects a legacy of past hurts and probes the possibility for repair and restitution -- Eithne Farry * Mail on Sunday *
France skilfully weaves together a believable, deftly characterised and scholarly tale that never lets its keen-eyed observations about London, the heritage and social class occlude an emerging story of Ros's necessary excavation of her own past -- Patricia Nicol * Sunday Times *
A fine eye for the telling detail... France is very good at capturing the ambiguities of the heritage industry -- Edward Behrens * Literary Review *
Intelligent, insightful, enlightening and gripping -- M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans
Miranda France is a writer and translator. The author of two highly acclaimed travel books, Bad Times in Buenos Aires and Don Quixote's Delusions, she has won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. She has translated Argentine writers including Alberto Manguel, Claudia Piñeiro and Liliana Heker. She grew up on a farm not unlike the farm that featured in her first novel, That Summer at Hill Farm, but now lives in London with her husband and two children. The Day Before the Fire is her second novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701185817 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701185813 |
| Title | The Day Before the Fire |
| Author | Miranda France |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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