A novel about the English obsession with the past and authenticity, set behind the scenes at a stately home
Miranda France is a writer and translator. The author of two highly acclaimed travel books, Bad Times in Buenos Aires and Don Quixote's Delusions, she has won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. She has translated Argentine writers including Alberto Manguel, Claudia Pineiro and Liliana Heker. She grew up on a farm not unlike the farm that featured in her first novel, That Summer at Hill Farm, but now lives in London with her husband and two children. The Day Before the Fire is her second novel.
A subtle and deeply satisfying book... if there is such a thing as
an 'authentic' writer, then France certainly makes the grade
*Independent*
Employing scalpel-sharp prose, Miranda France delicately dissects a
legacy of past hurts and probes the possibility for repair and
restitution
*Mail on Sunday*
France skilfully weaves together a believable, deftly characterised
and scholarly tale that never lets its keen-eyed observations about
London, the heritage and social class occlude an emerging story of
Ros's necessary excavation of her own past
*Sunday Times*
A fine eye for the telling detail... France is very good at
capturing the ambiguities of the heritage industry
*Literary Review*
Intelligent, insightful, enlightening and gripping
*M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans*
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