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The world is a puzzling, sometimes frightening place for Jessica Fontaine. As a child she only finds contentment in playing the piano and wandering alone in the empty spaces of Audlands Hall, the dilapidated country house where she grows up. Twenty-five years later, divorced, with her son still living at home, Jessica remains preoccupied by the desire to create space around her. Then her volatile ex-husband reappears, the first of several surprises that both transform Jessica’s present and give her a startling new perspective on the past. This is the the absorbing story of a woman who spends much of her life feeling that she is out of step with the real world, until she discovers why. Related with humor and compassion, it offers a fresh, illuminating insight into what it means to be normal.
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Clare Morrall is a music teacher.
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"It’s the warmth and roundedness of her characters that give Morrall’s novels their appeal . . . a suspenseful tale with a taut, spare style and real emotional impact. In this and in its brave challenge to our assumptions about what it means to be normal it’s a more than worthy shelfmate to Astonishing Splashes of Colour." —The Guardian
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- PublisherSCEPTRE
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0340896655
- ISBN 13 9780340896655
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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