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S'està carregant… Nightingale: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITERS AWARD (edició 2020)de Marina Kemp (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Nightingale (Fourth Estate) is the debut novel from Marina Kemp, the Director of Ink Academy, the providers of bespoke creative writing courses. And what a fantastic first novel it is! Set in rural Southern France a young nurse comes to live in with the dying man who once was the dominant personality in the village. The characters are well drawn, flawed, and have mixed reactions to this stranger coming into their midst. The girl Marguerite is weighed down by her own events of the past and it’s a nervous journey for the reader as we explore if she can find a new life and redemption. Highly recommended as an early choice for intelligent, literary summer reading. ( )
Nightingale is a deft debut; gritty, unsentimental but deeply moving, aglow with compassion.
'The bastard offspring of Ian McEwan and Shirley Conran... a rollercoaster of a read with serious intent' A moving and masterful novel about sex, death, passion and prejudice in a sleepy village in the south of France Marguerite Demers is twenty-four when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint-Sulpice, to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier, once one of the most powerful men in the village, and now dying alone in his large and secluded house, surrounded by rambling gardens. Manipulative and tyrannical, Jerome has scared away all his previous nurses. It's not long before the villagers have formed opinions of Marguerite. Brigitte Brochon, pillar of the community and local busybody, finds her arrogant and mysterious and is desperate to find a reason to have her fired. Glamorous outsider Suki Lacourse sees Marguerite as an ally in a sea of small-minded provincialism. Local farmer Henri Brochon, husband of Brigitte, feels concern for her and wants to protect her from the villagers' intrusive gossip and speculation - but Henri has a secret of his own that would intrigue and disturb his neighbours just as much as the truth about Marguerite, if only they knew ... Set among the lush fields and quiet olive groves of southern France, and written in clear prose of crystalline beauty, Nightingale is a masterful, moving novel about death, sexuality, compassion, prejudice and freedom. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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