The Gun Room by Georgina Harding
A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating new novel from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding
Georgina Harding’s novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose -- Sadie Jones * Guardian *
Quietly and restrainedly, The Gun Room is a book that provokes searching questions * Daily Mail *
Graceful and considered.. The dreamlike quality is heightened by Harding’s sharply observed prose ... As befits a writer adept at carefully cropped scenes, Harding has the measure of photography. The novel plays with its ability to captivate, shock, inform and misdirect * Sunday Telegraph *
In delicate, hypnotic prose, Harding describes the devastating effects of war and the trauma of bearing witness * Sunday Express *
A moving story * Elle Summer Reading *
Harding has the descriptive skills to do her subject justice … Elegant * Mail on Sunday *
Her writing is so gentle and beautiful and takes you so confidently on a journey. I let myself be carried away -- Esther Freud
Quietly and restrainedly, The Gun Room is a book that provokes searching questions * Daily Mail *
Graceful and considered.. The dreamlike quality is heightened by Harding’s sharply observed prose ... As befits a writer adept at carefully cropped scenes, Harding has the measure of photography. The novel plays with its ability to captivate, shock, inform and misdirect * Sunday Telegraph *
In delicate, hypnotic prose, Harding describes the devastating effects of war and the trauma of bearing witness * Sunday Express *
A moving story * Elle Summer Reading *
Harding has the descriptive skills to do her subject justice … Elegant * Mail on Sunday *
Her writing is so gentle and beautiful and takes you so confidently on a journey. I let myself be carried away -- Esther Freud
Georgina Harding is the author of three novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game, which was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an Encore Award, and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. She lives on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408869819 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408869810 |
| Title | The Gun Room |
| Author | Georgina Harding |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2017-04-20 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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