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"Fans of Anita Shreve and Anne Enright will love this" --Red Magazine
`The gentle, meandering pace of this exquisitely expresses the agony of grief and the confusions and complexities of parental love' --Easy Living
"Moore's portrayal of loss is remarkably real" --Psychologies
`profoundly moving, beautifully written book' --Waterstone's Books Quarterly
`A perfectly pitched novel that captures its characters and their dilemmas.'
--Woman and Home
"Moore's ability to write originally and passionately about love and death... never without the necessary bite that makes it real"
--Scottish Herald
'this mesmerising book is full of tears, and is a graceful meditation on how to survive life's losses' --Marie Claire
'Lisa Moore's heart-warming second novel is domestic fiction at its finest' --Daily Mail
'[an] extraordinary, unusually philosophical and human novel' --Irish Times
"Skilfully structured...delicate, involving novel" --The Daily Express
`Moore deftly weaves together the present... and the past, evoking memory and grief in pitch-perfect detail'. --New Yorker
`a very moving study of memory and grief' -- Financial Times
the world is so carefully observed it becomes something other than what it is. --The Observer
`The gentle, meandering pace of this exquisitely expresses the agony of grief and the confusions and complexities of parental love' --Easy Living
"Moore's portrayal of loss is remarkably real" --Psychologies
`profoundly moving, beautifully written book' --Waterstone's Books Quarterly
`A perfectly pitched novel that captures its characters and their dilemmas.'
--Woman and Home
"Moore's ability to write originally and passionately about love and death... never without the necessary bite that makes it real"
--Scottish Herald
'this mesmerising book is full of tears, and is a graceful meditation on how to survive life's losses' --Marie Claire
'Lisa Moore's heart-warming second novel is domestic fiction at its finest' --Daily Mail
'[an] extraordinary, unusually philosophical and human novel' --Irish Times
"Skilfully structured...delicate, involving novel" --The Daily Express
`Moore deftly weaves together the present... and the past, evoking memory and grief in pitch-perfect detail'. --New Yorker
`a very moving study of memory and grief' -- Financial Times
the world is so carefully observed it becomes something other than what it is. --The Observer
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From the publishers of Mary Lawson and Alice Munro, a moving and masterful novel by 'an astonishing writer' (Richard Ford)
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Moving, poised narrative,
This review is from: February (Paperback)
Lisa Moore is a subtle writer, building up her picture of long-term bereavement and gradual recovery grain by grain, which draws in the reader to a wholly realised world, across thirty years of a woman's life.
Apart from the meticulously realised retelling of the (true) loss of all hands on a floating oil platform in the North Atlantic on 14 February 1982, there is not a vast amount of plot. But this isn't a shallow thriller, and plot is not Moore's main interest. Rather, she is interested in revealing depths and subtleties of character through the little (or major) incidents of their lives, overshadowed by the disaster. She does so in a non-linear fashion, like a conversation where people reminisce up and down through the well of time. Individual chapters, particularly towards the end, would stand out as short stories in their own right, and Moore is not averse to introducing characters for single episodes, taking as much care to bring them to life as with the central half-dozen family members. However, the reader becomes especially close to Helen, and to her son John, the two very different individuals who dominate the narrative. Of all the 2010 long-listed Booker novels, this is the only one which I found personally moving, as the accumulation of detail, especially of the minutiae of loss, becomes overwhelming across 300 pages. The pace never drags, and the characters remain true and fresh to the end. A very satisfying read - and a life-affirming book which surely deserves to win the Booker.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
tentative explorarion of death and birth,
By Lucinda Stern (Bristol, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: February (Paperback)
I enjoyed this, though at times got a little fed up of the multi-point narrative. Moore's writing is tentative, she does not pretend to know what her characters think and feel, often suggesting a string of possibilities. I found it interesting that it is in part the story of the romance of an older lady, but a shame that Moore skims over this, in this the end felt rushed.
The book follows, among other things the story of a birth and of a death. The death is Helen's, the 54 year old grandmother protagonists, husband Cal, on the Ocean Ranger disaster. The birth is of the accidental child of her oldest child John. The blurb suggests that John grapples with what to do about the impending birth, the grappling wasn't too evident. Moore writes in beautiful, short chapters, which are rich in imagery and place. I imagine that Newfoundland is well captured, but I've never been there. I wondered if Moore had ever been to England, as at one point Helen sits on a coach between Stanstead and Heathrow and rhapsodises about the 'stonewalls and sheep', the Englishness of the countryside.......its sounds more like she is in Yorkshire than near London! I found it enjoyable, as I have said, and a great book to read on the bus. I did not find it terribly memorable. Its the sort of book I like to take on holiday.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
From raging sea to inner calm,
By ericmitford (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: February (Paperback)
Reviewers seem to be split on this one, but I'm firmly in the `pro' camp. One critic complains of getting lost in the back-and-forth in time that structures the book, yet every chapter heading makes it clear what time we're in. Another says the whole idea of a novel based around a real-life Newfoundland oil-rig disaster three decades ago is a dubious waste of time. Eh?
What Lisa Moore does is to anatomise grief, and methods of coping (or not coping) with it, by incrementally fleshing out the life, thoughts and emotional responses of the main character, widowed Helen, and to a lesser extent her son and daughters. John has discovered that a holiday fling has led to the prospect of a child he hadn't contemplated and may not want. Helen, by contrast, has had snatched away from her the husband she very much wanted to hold on to for ever. This book could have been dull, or maudlin or just plain irritating, but it never is. Instead it's quiet, thoughtful and redemptive. Time and again I found myself thinking, Yes, that's just right. If you like books like The Shipping News, or anything by Alice Munro, this is for you.
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