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"Subtle and profoundly beautiful."-"Scotsman"
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Rejacketed alongside Mist in the Mirror, Mrs De Winter and The Woman in Black to create a set of Susan Hill's most enchanting, unsettling and absorbing backlist titles
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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"Air and Angels" is yet another powerful Susan Hill novel. In simple terms it is about the wishes, dreams and dreads of a variety of somewhat upper class English folk and how their emotions clash against the constraining conventions of the well ordered society for which they are meant to be standard bearers. The action centres on Thomas Cavendish who is a Cambridge University tutor living with his sister. His life is quite simple and he wants for nothing, his passions being the birds that he keeps and the teaching he does. However his quiet life is shattered when he falls in love with a young teenager named Kitty who comes over from India in order to be educated in her home country.
This is only the main plot line however, and the book is crammed with a huge number of well defined characters, all somehow troubled and anxious of how things will work out for them. Susan Hill is very skilled in describing them and their thoughts in a moving way that is also quite old fashioned, befitting the period in which the book is set (which is never accurately defined).
All in all the book is very strong and the prose - as always in her books - is very elegant. You get the impression that Susan Hill could have drafted the Poll Tax Act and it would have been just about the most beautiful thing anyone had ever read.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A simply beautiful book. The writing is impeccable, drawing (in true Susan Hill style) a picture of England (in this case mostly Cambridge and the Fens) and it's seasons. But it is all the characters, explored in depth and sensitivity, which make this book so profound. The impact of the dry old professor falling in love with a young girl and the effect it has on him, had me in tears at the end. I recommend this book as it is truly gifted writing.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The book was purchased as second hand and in good condition. I just can't get enough of Susan Hill's books, she has a real understanding of human relationships which leave you thinking long after the last page. This book is no exception.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Beautiful but also somehow frustrating
Susan Hill's writing is beautiful, subtle and poetic, although the run-on sentences and sometimes dodgy use of commas sometimes bugged me. Read more
Published 3 months ago by G. Cseh
Elegant and Evocative with an Underlying Sadness
Thomas Cavendish, in his middle fifties, a Cambridge Don of unimpeachable reputation lives a quiet, celibate and orderly life with his sister, Georgiana. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Susie B
A beautiful, evocative novel of times gone by
This is a lovely book, beautifully written, as are all of Susan Hill's books that I have read so far. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Keen Reader
Air and Angels
For me this was not as good as other works by Susan Hill. At times I found it a bit frustrating due to changes of characters and even continents without due warning.
Published 9 months ago by Malcolm1
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