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- Sceptre
- Sceptre
- Sceptre
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Sceptre
- Paperback Sep 13, 2016 | 9781444753523 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 27, 2015 | 9781444753516 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback Sep 13, 2016 | 9781444753523 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 27, 2015 | 9781444753516 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 27, 2015 | 9781444790580 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback Sep 13, 2016 | 9781444753523 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 27, 2015 | 9781444753516 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 27, 2015 | 9781444790580 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
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From the author of the Costa Book of the Year PURE, a hynoptic, luminous exploration of buried grief and the mysterious workings of the heart.
She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known.
Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This young woman who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all began.
As magnetic as she is inscrutable, Maud defies expectations and evades explanation - a daughter, girlfriend and mother who, in the wake of a tragedy, embarks on a dangerous voyage across the Atlantic, not knowing where it will lead...
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, this is a viscerally honest, hypnotic portrait of modern love and motherhood, the lure of the sea and the ultimate unknowability of others. This pitch-perfect novel confirms Andrew Miller's position as one of the finest writers of his generation.
Praise for The Crossing
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Part relationship study, part sailing yarn, this odd yet enthralling book lingers long in the mind. - Books of the Year, Financial Times
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We readers have a most fabulous time . . . The story of Tim's narcissism, self-deception and deception, and of the chiming treacheries of his friends and family, is rich and delicate enough to have sufficed for most contemporary novels...[the finale] guarantees that Maud, and questions about Maud, will linger in your mind long after you close this remarkable novel - Guardian
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Hypnotic . . . Andrew Miller has a poet's ear but he can also write white-knuckle passages that will leave you winded by towering waves. Most surprising of all, you'll find yourself rooting forMaud as she confronts the limits of her own detachment - Mail on Sunday
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Visceral and exquisitely written . . . few characters are so neutrally, impassively masterful. In her silence she is magnificent . . . the grand solitude of the sea passage, dialogue-free and with a punchy simplicity reminiscent of Hemingway, follows on beautifully from the judgment of those on land . . . Miller, wisely, hardly analyses Maud. But the portrayal of this practical, disconcerting figure is wildly emotional ***** - The Lady
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Achieves a kind of hallucinatory strangeness, simultaneously intriguing and disturbing - Spectator
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Told in his usual exquisite prose, the story centres on the strangely reticent character of Maud, who leaves the West Country after a tragedy and bravely attempts to single-handedly sail across the Atlantic. You know you're going to like a character when, in the first few pages, she falls 20ft in a boatyard, then gets up and tries to walk. Infused with nautical detail and the cool brine of the sea, this is perfect summer reading. - Observer
Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free and The Slowworm's Song.
Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.
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