Clare Morrall
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"...propulsive and compelling...a gripping [story]." - New York Times Book Review
"Beautifully subtle. . . . It draws the reader in page after page." - Boston Globe
"Astonishing Splashes of Colours is a brave and startling book, tinted, shaded and stained like life itself." - Philadelphia Inquirer
"This finely constructed novel, Booker Prize (shortlist), should please readers of both popular and literary fiction." - Library Journal (starred review)
"Wellington,...
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Peter Straker lives in a converted lighthouse on the Devon coast with a fine view of the sea, two cats, and no neighbors. That's just the way he likes it. He speaks to no one except in his dreams, where he converses with some of the seventy-eight people he believes he killed nearly a quarter-century earlier -- though he can't quite remember how it happened. But Straker's carefully preserved solitude is about to be invaded by Imogen Doody, a prickly...
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A wittily observed slice of modern life as it plumbs the gulf between nostalgia and reality Who is the Roundabout Man? He doesn't look like a tramp, yet he lives on a roundabout in a caravan and survives on the leftovers from a motorway service station. He calls himself Quinn, the name of a boy in a world-famous series of children's books. When Quinn's reclusive existence is invaded, he has to face his past, and the uncomfortable truth of who he really...
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When Felix Kendall vanishes, his wife Kate is left in turmoil. As she and their children adjust to a hand-to-mouth existence, she looks back on their marriage and Felix's orphaned upbringing in search of clues, confronting the possibility that she has badly misread him. And as Kate gradually discovers strengths she never knew she had, Felix is coming to terms with just what he has lost.