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Grace McCleen's first novel, The Land of Decoration, was published in 2012 and was awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize for the best first novel of the year. It was also chosen for Richard & Judy's Book Club and won her the Betty Trask Prize in 2013. Her second novel, The Professor of Poetry, was published by Sceptre in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Encore Award. She read English at the University of Oxford and has an MA from York, and currently lives in London.
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[McCleen's] vivid representations of the wild environment, loaded with symbolism and a powerful, often sinister spirituality, can bring to mind the poetry of Louise Erdrich, and a sense of fear and foreboding propels the narrative forward. The family's first spring on the island, for example, is described in a single, stunning sentence [...] the denouement will leave you reeling. -- Laura Battle * Financial Times * Award-winning author Grace McCleen returns with The Offering, a mesmerising story of innocence corrupted. * Good Housekeeping * There is an eerie sense of foreboding in Grace McCleen's wonderful third novel...Terrific and terrifying. * Psychologies (Book of the Month) * Captures the intensity of teenage anguish, and expresses a terrifying estimation of its implications, but it also dares to suggest that God can never be removed from the equation and asks: What is God? * Max Liu, Independent * Impressive, a plausible and moving account of mental illness. * Sam Kitchener, Daily Telegraph * The richness with which Madeline describes her febrile younger self contrasts heartbreakingly with the glassy, emotionally neutered life she inhabits now...a bold, mature, terribly sad novel. * Claire Allfree, Daily Mail * Grace McCleen's talent for description, especially when portraying the natural world, is quite exquisite * Carol Midgley, The Times * Strange and beautiful * Hope Whitmore, Independent on Sunday * That McCleen is a writer of exceptional gifts is beyond doubt. Her prose can soar in moments of breathtaking beauty, most particularly when she turns a poet's eye on the landscape...she writes equally viscerally about her narrator's emotional terrain, depicting claustrophobia, shame and terror so painfully it makes your skin itch. * Stephanie Merritt, Observer * Extraordinary...Wonderfully suspenseful and deeply moving, The Offering is full of insights about the nature of madness. It is also keenly observant of the ways in which men play God and the power of the oppressed imagination to create an inhabitable world, even under near-intolerable conditions. * John Burnside, Guardian *
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1444769995
- ISBN 13 9781444769999
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages264
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