A Good Liar (Between the Mountains and the Sea) - Softcover

Sutton, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0952387174 ISBN 13: 9780952387176

Publisher: HOAD Press, 2012

Synopsis

Jessie Thompson had been lying to her mother all her life’…and the lies continue as Jessie gives away her baby in the chaos of Barrow during the Great War, changes her name and escapes to the glorious landscape of west Cumberland where the River Esk winds into the Irish Sea. Driven by loneliness, and despite her better judgment, Jessie embarks on a love affair that threatens her security, while a ghost from her past moves ever closer.

Set in what is now the Lake District National Park, Ruth Sutton’s first novel introduces us to a fascinating cast of characters, in the first half of the last century, when oil lamps lit the houses and horses ploughed the fields. Life was different then, but the passions and risks that shape our lives were just as real.

This is the first part of a trilogy ‘Between the Mountains and the Sea’ tracing Jessie’s life through the dramatic decades from the Great War through the thirties into the Second War and on into the gloom of post-war England and the dawn of the nuclear age in Cumberland. (2012-04-16)

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About the Author

Ruth Sutton was a secondary teacher and deputy principal of an inner-city school in Manchester, England. Five years as assessment consultant to a school district were followed by two years as senior adviser (assistant superintendent). She then became an independent consultant specializing in assessment for learning and school improvement. Her work takes her all over the world. Over the past four years, she has fulfilled a long-standing aspiration to write fiction. 'A Good Liar' is her first novel, set in the glorious landscape of west Cumbria and the English Lake District where she has lived for several years

Edition details

• Publisher: HOAD Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0952387174
• ISBN 13: 9780952387176
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320