The Naming Of Eliza Quinn by Carol Birch
This is a wonderful, absorbing, epic novel about families and neighbours; about physical and emotional hunger; about love and long memories.
Always understated, yet crammed with incidents of the highest drama, the novel's best moments come when the intense feeling that underlies it breaks out into densely weighted fragments of speechIt is at least as good as anything on this year's Booker shortlist, and I remain as mystified as ever by Carol Birch's absence from that far-from cluttered file of modern novelist whose works are genuinely worth their welcome * DJ Taylor, GUARDIAN *
Carol Birch's fiction continues to stretch bodies and minds to breaking point...marvellous and terrifying * Sunday TIMES *
Carol Birch's fiction continues to stretch bodies and minds to breaking point...marvellous and terrifying * Sunday TIMES *
Carol Birch was born in Manchester. Author of seven novels, she has won the David Higham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was longlisted for the 2003 ManBooker Prize. She lives in Lancaster.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844081462 |
| ISBN 10 | 184408146X |
| Title | The Naming Of Eliza Quinn |
| Author | Carol Birch |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2006-08-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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