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Grace After Henry
eBook - 'A deftness reminiscent of Marian Keyes' Irish Times
ISBN/EAN: 9781786493200
Umbreit-Nr.: 4786955
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 432 S., 2.15 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 03.05.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- Winner of The Big Book Awards: The Best Page Turners, 2018Shortlisted for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year: The Irish Book Awards, 2018An Irish Independent Book of the year, 2018Grace sees her boyfriend Henry everywhere. In the supermarket, on the street, at the graveyard.Only Henry is dead. He died two months earlier, leaving a huge hole in Grace's life and in her heart. But then Henry turns up to fix the boiler one evening, and Grace can't decide if she's hallucinating or has suddenly developed psychic powers. Grace isn't going mad - the man in front of her is not Henry at all, but someone else who looks uncannily like him. The hole in Grace's heart grows ever larger.Grace becomes captivated by this stranger, Andy - to her, he is Henry, and yet he is not. Reminded of everything she once had, can Grace recreate that lost love with Andy, resurrecting Henry in the process, or does loving Andy mean letting go of Henry?
- Kurztext
- Winner of The Big Book Awards: The Best Page Turners, 2018 Shortlisted for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year: The Irish Book Awards, 2018An Irish Independent Book of the year, 2018Grace sees her boyfriend Henry everywhere. In the supermarket, on the street, at the graveyard. Only Henry is dead. He died two months earlier, leaving a huge hole in Grace's life and in her heart. But then Henry turns up to fix the boiler one evening, and Grace can't decide if she's hallucinating or has suddenly developed psychic powers. Grace isn't going mad - the man in front of her is not Henry at all, but someone else who looks uncannily like him. The hole in Grace's heart grows ever larger. Grace becomes captivated by this stranger, Andy - to her, he is Henry, and yet he is not. Reminded of everything she once had, can Grace recreate that lost love with Andy, resurrecting Henry in the process, or does loving Andy mean letting go of Henry?
- Autorenportrait
- Eithne Shortall is an author, journalist and occasional broadcaster. Her debut novel,Love in Row 27, was a major Irish bestseller, and the follow-up,Grace After Henry, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards and won Best Page Turner at the UK's Big Book Awards. Her third novel,Three Little Truths, was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.