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Part of the Spell - Hardcover

Heath, Rachel

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9780091925888: Part of the Spell

Synopsis

Autumn 2007. A woman disappears from the small provincial market town where she has lived a quiet respectable community life, raising her family, for years. She leaves behind few clues as to why she might have vanished, or where to. Her absence sends out ripples that begin to connect its diffuse citizens; her daughter, a young dangerously dreamy mother of two, an museum archivist and her 'complicated' partner, a secret, furious blogger whose supposedly secret posts are attracting global interest, and a bemused City risk analyst, each with problems, conflicting desires, joys and confusions of their own. The disappearance begins to implicate and involve them all.

This is a novel about what it means to say you want 'the quiet life' in the modern world, about the contracts we enter -- love, marriages, houses and work, about community, nostalgia and neighbourliness.

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About the Author

RACHEL HEATH was born in Bristol in 1968. She lives with her husband, a screenwriter, and their three children and one dog in Bath.

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