Susan Hill proves once again that she is one of our very best storytellers in this transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle.
Susan Hill's novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewellyn Rhys awards, and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She is the author of 56 books. The play adapted from her famous ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running in the West End since 1989; it is also a major feature film. Her crime novels featuring DCS Simon Serrailler are currently being adapted for TV. Susan Hill was born in Scarborough and educated at King's College London. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells, and they have two daughters. Susan Hill was appointed a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. www.susan-hill.com
Of all the contemporary novelists who are compared to Dickens,
Susan Hill probably has the best claim....Hill has produced another
perfectly controlled work of fiction... What is striking about the
best of Hill's fiction...is her almost Bachian ability to plumb the
depths of emotion and bring the reader back out again
*Prospect*
Hill impresses without seeking to astonish, and so is one of those
rare writers whose work is brilliant in the single, secondary
sense- not glittering, but distinguished- her prose as pleasing and
surprising, say, as a perfectly round stone, or home-cooked haute
cuisine
*Guardian*
Hill's writing here is superb, conveying emotion and pain in the
sparest of prose...a comforting keenly moving tale of endurance and
the eternal springs of friendship and love
*Literary Review*
It has a power beyond its pages; a haunting resonance between each
stark sentence that stayed with me long after I'd turned the final
page.The delicate balance between kindness and bitterness, hope and
despair, a dying man and a dying town, are almost unbearably
poignant. This is a short book that will live long in the
memory
*Independent on Sunday*
Concisely captures primal emotions and offers astonishing
transformations... Movingly perceptive
*Sunday Times*
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