- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (5 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0349110352
- ISBN-13: 978-0349110356
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,497,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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MARGARET FORSTER
'A gothic novel in the best sense...and even a romantic one in the way Tolstoy is romantic'
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'Black humour, cool irony and sentimentality... Sue Prideaux juggles her extensive cast with skill'
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Format:Paperback
A compelling, linguistically rich and highly original novel. Spanning Europe across seventy five years of this century, Magnetic North is large in scope but this backdrop neither dominates nor overwhelms the strongly characterised central figures. Instead it is created as their past, shaped by and shaping them. The prose is rich but light in touch, preserving a wry detachment appropriate to the characters of the novel (one of whom, in a brilliant touch, speaks in laconic English learnt from Damon Runyon books). The action moves from the European Riviera shortly before the outbreak of World War One to Oslo in its trading prime, via a Twenties cruise to Thirties London and war in Europe once again, followed by post-war unease and depression. The reader will enjoy the views, perhaps particularly those of Norway, a country neglected in fiction. The author's Anglo-Norwegian blood makes for multi-lingual writing which works on several levels simultaneously. Magnetic North is one of those books whose effects are visceral - the reader feels the episodes of the novel in the pit of the stomach. Higly believable and fascinating characters dictate the plot: parabloas of destruction are traced by bad characters and repeated by their descendants, while the few good characters work to overcome the cycles created. The book is heart rending, but finally highly satisfying.
Format:Hardcover
This book was really gripping. I couldn't put it down, and had to read it in practically one sitting. It is extremely moving and has incredible insight into human character. All of the characters in it are very well portrayed.
Format:Paperback
Read Magnetic North and meet Katya, a Tsarina manqué, and her daughter Katya who speaks English learned from thirties detective fiction and works for a hopeless interior designer with a floor fetish. Their lives cover this century and their fates make gripping reading.
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Funny, sad, memorable - a remarkable book
Read Magnetic North and meet Katya, a Tsarina manqué, and her daughter Katya who speaks English learned from thirties detective fiction and works for a hopeless interior... Read more
Published on 1 Aug 1999
A compelling, linguistically rich and highly original novel.
Spanning Europe across seventy five years of this century, Magnetic North is large in scope but this backdrop neither dominates nor overwhelms the strongly characterised central... Read more
Published on 1 Aug 1999
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