Part of the Spell by Rachel Heath
Tacita is pretending to ignore her husband's affair. Stella can't imagine wanting any more than she has. Theresa is determined to stay so busy, she won't have time to feel guilty. Zeki hopes no-one will find out what he's up to. Jonathan imagined the family running through woods in their wellies - not solitary bottles of whisky on commuter train.
Born and brought up in the Essex market town where she still lives, Stella is content with the everyday satisfactions that marriage and motherhood bringOnly when her own mother goes missing does Stella’s sense of herself, and the world she inhabits, shift . . . like her central character’s life, Rachel Heath’s novel has its own quiet pleasures. * Sunday Times *
Heath’s skill is to wind people together, some of them related to one another, others strangers with nothing in common except the place in which they live . . . This is a novel about personality, and behaviour – oh, and Saffron Walden. Much is convincing (Saffron Walden entirely so: I feel I know it). The Finest Type of English Womanhood was shortlisted for the Costa first novel award. The second is notoriously hard to pull off, particularly when the first has attracted attention. Part of the Spell goes a good way towards meeting that challenge. * Guardian *
Heath’s skill is to wind people together, some of them related to one another, others strangers with nothing in common except the place in which they live . . . This is a novel about personality, and behaviour – oh, and Saffron Walden. Much is convincing (Saffron Walden entirely so: I feel I know it). The Finest Type of English Womanhood was shortlisted for the Costa first novel award. The second is notoriously hard to pull off, particularly when the first has attracted attention. Part of the Spell goes a good way towards meeting that challenge. * Guardian *
Rachel Heath was born in Bristol in 1968. She lives with her husband, three children and a dog, in Bath.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780091925888 |
| ISBN 10 | 0091925886 |
| Title | Part of the Spell |
| Author | Rachel Heath |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2012-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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