The Girl on the Landing. Paul Torday: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Antony Beevor
Autor Paul Tordayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iun 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780753823408
ISBN-10: 0753823403
Pagini: 308
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Phoenix Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0753823403
Pagini: 308
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Phoenix Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
'This is an exciting novel - part love story, part psychological thriller - which confounds your expectations as it tightens its grip.'
'Torday is clearly having fun'
'The story of Michael Gascoigne's strange affinity with the wilderness unravels slowly, tantalisingly...'
'The best book of the year...a truly astonishing take on what appears on the surface to be mental illness and turns out to be something far darker' -- Virginia Blackburn SUNDAY EXPRESS 'This is an exciting novel - part love story, part psychological thriller - which confounds your expectations as it tightens its grip.' -- John Koski YOU, MAIL ON SUNDAY 'The story of Michael Gascoigne's strange affinity with the wilderness unravels slowly, tantalisingly...' GUARDIAN 'Torday carries off a surprising, suspenseful update of Stevenson in the 21st-century Jekyll-and-Hyde thriller.' OBSERVER 'Torday is clearly having fun' SUNDAY TIMES 'A highly unusual fusion of atmospheric ghost story and sensitive protrayal of mental illness' GOOD BOOK GUIDE
'Torday is clearly having fun'
'The story of Michael Gascoigne's strange affinity with the wilderness unravels slowly, tantalisingly...'
'The best book of the year...a truly astonishing take on what appears on the surface to be mental illness and turns out to be something far darker' -- Virginia Blackburn SUNDAY EXPRESS 'This is an exciting novel - part love story, part psychological thriller - which confounds your expectations as it tightens its grip.' -- John Koski YOU, MAIL ON SUNDAY 'The story of Michael Gascoigne's strange affinity with the wilderness unravels slowly, tantalisingly...' GUARDIAN 'Torday carries off a surprising, suspenseful update of Stevenson in the 21st-century Jekyll-and-Hyde thriller.' OBSERVER 'Torday is clearly having fun' SUNDAY TIMES 'A highly unusual fusion of atmospheric ghost story and sensitive protrayal of mental illness' GOOD BOOK GUIDE
Notă biografică
Paul Torday burst on to the literary scene in 2007 with his first novel, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, an immediate international bestseller which has been translated into 28 languages and has been made into a film starring Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Blunt. His subsequent novels, THE IRRESISTIBLE INHERITANCE OF WILBERFORCE, THE GIRL ON THE LANDING, THE HOPELESS LIFE OF CHARLIE SUMMERS, MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY, THE LEGACY OF HARTLEPOOL HALL and LIGHT SHINING IN THE FOREST, were all published to great critical acclaim. He was married with two sons by a previous marriage, had two stepsons, and lived close to the River North Tyne. He died at home in December 2013.
Descriere
A ghost story, a psychological thriller and a tale of love rediscovered, THE GIRL ON THE LANDING is the gripping new novel from the author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN.