- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Picador (24 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330372920
- ISBN-13: 978-0330372923
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,998,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Lovesong is a lovely, lyrical creation that has melody and melancholy aching through its sentences... bewitchingly good' Elle, Book of the Month
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A heartbreaking and mesmerizing story of a young woman's search for love When Lillie Bird was thirteen years old she walked into her parents' home closing the door behind her, shutting out the condemning cries of the small town of Sunshine. With only an outing to Christmas mass once a year, this house was to be her world for the next eight years. On the day she turns twenty one this too-dazzling woman brims with imminent escape and longs to find the world that she has only read about: of men, of love, of brightness. But the town of Sunshine cannot hold Lillie and soon she is drawn to her mother's land, the cold dark English skies, and finally to the scuffed and tumbling London streets. There she finds the pleasure and the sadness in the world she so desperately seeks. This is Nikki Gemmell's finest work to date.
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28 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wonderful to read.
Lillie, the main character in the book, is a troubled youth trying to find life from one continent to another.
It's romantic, yet displaced characters can be often identified with....A mother, uprooting herself from the country of her birth, to fall in love with a man from America and stay there, her daughter, Lillie, being sent to stay with her Grandfather, back in England, a man set in his ways, but with a rebel understanding in his heart....an aunt, so utterly British, A man, who uses women, another desperately in love...all entwined with the main character, who's lost in herself....and wants to discover life.
A novel haunting, intense and beautifully written, different and set apart the author conveys this in her style of writing, that's so addictive.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was absolutely amazing. The writing style is superb and draws you in and made me not want to put the book down. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to read a book which is not instantly forgettable but stays with you. Fantastic. I will definitely be reading other books by Nikki Gemmell.
Format:Hardcover
My 4 year old thoroughly enjoyed both the book & film. The story brings home the importance of friendship to all. Through Tigger's adventures he learns that true friends stick together through thick & thin. After all they are like family. An ecellent moral for young children. It's also nice to see that Pooh isn't the main character again & that Tigger finally gets to be the center of attention. A must for all fans.
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I have just fiished this book, and Im not really sure how I feel about it. I thought it was very hard to get into, and found the style of writing difficult to read, as it didnt... Read more
Published on 3 May 2006 by LMH
GLAMOUR magazine must-read
"A mesmerising read about the triumph of the human spirit, but there's no mushy sentimentality - Gemmell's third book has the heroine Lillie Bird discovering joy and pain in... Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2001
ELLE magazine read-of-the-month:
"Gemmell's third novel casts a siren-like spell; a lovely, lyrical creation that has melody and melancholy aching through its sentences ... Bewitchingly good."
Published on 28 Aug 2001
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