The Translation of the Bones (Paperback)
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£7.99
Synopsis
A searingly powerful novel about passion and isolation, about the nature of belief, about love and motherhood and a search for truth.
In a church in Battersea, Mary-Margaret O'Reilly sees blood on her hands and believes she has witnessed a miracle. The consequences are both profound and devastating - not just for her but for others, too:
Father Diamond, the parish priest, struggling with his own faith. Stella, adrift in her marriage and aching for her ten-year old son, away at boarding school. Alice, counting the days until her soldier son comes home. And Mary-Margaret's mother, imprisoned in a tower block with nothing but her thoughts for company...
Reviews
If Francesca Kay's second novel were a piece of music, it would be a requiem, finding the poetry, perhaps even the glory, in loss and despair ... In its depiction of a community grappling with the pain of what it means to be human, it is a novel which manages to be both poignant and uplifting...as lyrical as Kay's debut, An Equal Stillness
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Unfailingly gripping, filled with the essential ingredients - tension and emotion
LITERARY REVIEW
Rich in the same verbal artistry and emotional finesse as her debut
INDEPENDENT
A well-tempered exploration of the haphazard, the religious and the mad...in beautifully musical sentences with carefully judged rhythms
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Kay's writing is rich and luscious without being overblown ... Kay maintains the momentum in a story that is more often about the characters' inner worlds than their actions or experiences...elegantly written
TLS
Francesca Kay is the author of the stunningly beautiful debut An Equal Stillness and this second novel is tinged with the same bittersweet melancholy that pervaded the first ... The writing is intense and exquisite
DAILY EXPRESS
Product Details
- 240 pages
- 198mm x 129mm x 129mm
- ISBN-13 Number: 9781780220147
- Publication Date: August 2012
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