The Sun Road by Hannah Macdonald
When, after eighteen years, thirty-year-old Beth meets her childhood friend and neighbour, Dan, she is horrified to feel a strong physical attraction between them. Is it simply because they offer each other a sentimental link to the past or is there more to it than that? Whatever the answer, Beth can't allow it to develop. As one friend says to her, 'It's not ironic, it's sick. You are not going out with the son of a man you had a two-year affair with.' But prickly, self-contained Beth knows it's too late and so begins an affair that will bring Beth and Dan face to face with their pasts, with the choices their parents made and with the precarious nature of happiness. A journey that will ultimately lead to Beth discovering the shocking truth behind her unhappy relationship with her mother and a thirty-year-old tragedy that has shaped all their lives. Characterisation that never misses a beat makes this an astonishingly assured debut novel.
'What good popular fiction should be - a moving, well-observed tale' - Mail on SundayWonderfulI read it late into the night quite disbelieving this was a first novel' - Esther Freud'very moving... Hannah MacDonald is a natural writer, with a sharp eye for telling detail, a felicitous turn of phrase, a fine and judicious feel for the physicality of life wonderful' - Tim Pears, author of In a Land of Plenty'A beautifully written novel, enigmatic and full of unexpected turns' - Waterstone's Books Quarterly
Hannah MacDonald is Editorial Director of Ebury Press. This is her first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316861892 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316861898 |
| Title | The Sun Road |
| Author | Hannah Macdonald |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2003-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 310 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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