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Paperback. Pages: 432 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK An epic novel of love. loss and a family uprooted. set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London.Grace de Silva. wife of the shiftless but charming Aloysius . has five children and a crumbling marriage. Her eldest son. Jacob. wants desperately to go to England. Thornton. the most beautiful of all the children and his mothers favourite. dreams of becoming a poet. Alicia wants to be a concert pianist. Only Frieda has no ambition. other than to remain close to her family. But civil unrest is stirring in Sri Lanka and Christopher. the youngest and the rebel of the family. is soon caught up in the tragedy that follows.As the decade unfolds against a backdrop of increasing ethnic violence. Grace watches helplessly as the life she knows begins to crumble. Slowly. this once happy famil...
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Roma Tearne is a visual artist and author of two novels, her most recent being Mosquito. She was born in Sri Lanka and has lived in Britain since the age of 10. She completed her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 2002 to 2003, she was artist in residence at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. She has also been artist in residence at Modern Art, Oxford. She lives in Oxford, UK.
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"They''re an eccentric family and Tearne''s portrait of them is simultaneously sharp-eyed and empathetic . . . I felt myself identifying with the characters . . . It was a book that made me laugh and cry. I enjoyed my time with it and was left with a sense of my horizons having been broadened."
-"The Sydney Morning Herald"
"Probing loss and memory amid violence and displacement . . . Tearne deftly reveals the corrosive effects of civil strife on private lives and the redemptiveness of art."
"- The Guardian"
"Bone China is well-paced and nicely plotted, with flashes of brilliant lyrical writing."
"-Scotland on Sunday"
"They're an eccentric family and Tearne's portrait of them is simultaneously sharp-eyed and empathetic . . . I felt myself identifying with the characters . . . It was a book that made me laugh and cry. I enjoyed my time with it and was left with a sense of my horizons having been broadened."
-"The Sydney Morning Herald"
"Probing loss and memory amid violence and displacement . . . Tearne deftly reveals the corrosive effects of civil strife on private lives and the redemptiveness of art."
"- The Guardian"
"Bone China is well-paced and nicely plotted, with flashes of brilliant lyrical writing."
"-Scotland on Sunday"
-"The Sydney Morning Herald"
"Probing loss and memory amid violence and displacement . . . Tearne deftly reveals the corrosive effects of civil strife on private lives and the redemptiveness of art."
"- The Guardian"
"Bone China is well-paced and nicely plotted, with flashes of brilliant lyrical writing."
"-Scotland on Sunday"
"They're an eccentric family and Tearne's portrait of them is simultaneously sharp-eyed and empathetic . . . I felt myself identifying with the characters . . . It was a book that made me laugh and cry. I enjoyed my time with it and was left with a sense of my horizons having been broadened."
-"The Sydney Morning Herald"
"Probing loss and memory amid violence and displacement . . . Tearne deftly reveals the corrosive effects of civil strife on private lives and the redemptiveness of art."
"- The Guardian"
"Bone China is well-paced and nicely plotted, with flashes of brilliant lyrical writing."
"-Scotland on Sunday"
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0007257503
- ISBN 13 9780007257508
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