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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Anna HopePublisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd Imprint: Black Swan Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.283kg ISBN: 9780552779463ISBN 10: 0552779466 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 01 January 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsA compelling and emotionally charged debut about the painful aftermath of war and the ways - small, brave or commonplace - that keep us going. It touches feelings we know, and settings - dance halls, war front, queues outside the grocer - that we don't. I loved it. -- Rachel Joyce, author of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY A compelling and emotionally charged debut about the painful aftermath of war and the ways - small, brave or commonplace - that keep us going. It touches feelings we know, and settings - dance halls, war front, queues outside the grocer - that we don't. I loved it. -- Rachel Joyce, author of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY A tender and timely novel, full of compassion and quiet insight. The author gives us a moving and original glimpse into the haunted peace after the Great War, her characters drawn by the gravity of the unmarked, the unknown and perhaps, finally, the unhoped for. -- Chris Cleave, author of THE OTHER HAND Wake is powerful and humane; a novel that charms and beguiles. Anna Hope's characters are so real; flawed and searching, and her prose so natural, one almost forgets how very great a story she is telling. -- Sadie Jones, author of THE OUTCAST Absorbing and timely Daily Mail A moving novel about the aftershock of the 1914-1918 conflict. ... unlikely many will prove better than Anna Hope's Wake Sunday Times A compelling and emotionally charged debut about the painful aftermath of war and the ways - small, brave or commonplace - that keep us going. It touches feelings we know, and settings - dance halls, war front, queues outside the grocer - that we don't. I loved it. -- Rachel Joyce, author of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY A tender and timely novel, full of compassion and quiet insight. The author gives us a moving and original glimpse into the haunted peace after the Great War, her characters drawn by the gravity of the unmarked, the unknown and perhaps, finally, the unhoped for. -- Chris Cleave, author of THE OTHER HAND Wake is powerful and humane; a novel that charms and beguiles. Anna Hope's characters are so real; flawed and searching, and her prose so natural, one almost forgets how very great a story she is telling. -- Sadie Jones, author of THE OUTCAST Superb ... beautifully crafted Irish Times A moving novel about the aftershock of the 1914-1918 conflict. ... unlikely many will prove better than Anna Hope's Wake Sunday Times Author InformationANNA HOPE was born in Manchester, and educated at Oxford University and RADA. The idea behind Wake came to her when she visited the Somme, where she was struck by the sight of so many rows of identical crosses, and wondered at the grief of the women they left behind. WAKE is her first novel. Follow her on Twitter @Anna_Hope Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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