- Hardcover: 262 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (3 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340748664
- ISBN-13: 978-0340748664
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,435,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tamsen has a soul-mate-shaped hole inside. She's always known there must be someone missing. Teresa feels like she lives on the edge of someone else's vision. Both women have a sense of vivid yearning, and as they move closer together, the answer that lies buried will relentlessly be revealed.
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Intense and absorbing, this novel must not be missed.
After the success of FROZEN SUMMER comes Crysse Morrison's eagerly awaited second novel. Confirming her reputation as one of the finest psychological writers of today, SLEEPING IN SAND is lyrical yet spare, delicate yet powerful. Morrison's talent is in rendering the ordinary extraordinary and in making every detail of a life, indeed, every life, seem important and noteworthy. Her newest novel examines a different sort of hidden memory to that in FROZEN SUMMER; there it was amnesia but here it is the essential memory of what lies buried in our deepest consciousness. Two women move closer and closer to realizing the truth of what has happened to them, and who they are. The end is truly spine-tingling.
After the success of FROZEN SUMMER comes Crysse Morrison's eagerly awaited second novel. Confirming her reputation as one of the finest psychological writers of today, SLEEPING IN SAND is lyrical yet spare, delicate yet powerful. Morrison's talent is in rendering the ordinary extraordinary and in making every detail of a life, indeed, every life, seem important and noteworthy. Her newest novel examines a different sort of hidden memory to that in FROZEN SUMMER; there it was amnesia but here it is the essential memory of what lies buried in our deepest consciousness. Two women move closer and closer to realizing the truth of what has happened to them, and who they are. The end is truly spine-tingling.
As intense and absorbing as her first book, this novel must not be missed. We will hear more from Crysse Morrison. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Surpasses her debut title, "Frozen Summer",
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This review is from: Sleeping in the Sand (Hardcover)
"Sleeping In Sand" drew me into the narrative immediately. This is a fine second novel, which surpasses her debut title, "Frozen Summer". There is a greater confidence, a deeper emotional involvement with her characters. It's not often a book elicits tears, yet I shed a few over this one. Two women each have a sense of something unspoken missing from both their lives; circumstances impel their paths closer as forgotten and suppressed memories slowly surface, and gradually the deeply buried key to their profound sense of loss is finally revealed. The jacket quote from "The Times" praising the first novel suggests there are echoes of Helen Dunmore in Morrison's lyrically compelling prose, this parallel is further justified in "Sleeping in Sand". The story stays with you as the covers are closed on the last page - and so does Morrison's visual imagery, "Love doesn't come rolling out like a velvet stairway; you have to walk it yourself like a songline." Excellent.
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A riveting psychological drama of mystery and revelation.,
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This review is from: Sleeping in the Sand (Hardcover)
Crysse Morrison has produced another utterly absorbing and page-turning novel in which her deft wordplay emotionally involves the reader in the tragic, mysterious and mystically uplifting experiences of her characters.Tamsen and Teresa - two women, two worlds apart. Both are destined to undertake an unexpected journey. It is a journey that will bring them tantalisingly close to finding the answers to their lifelong quests for understanding. Tamsen lives with her ageing, ex-hippy father and her son, Tyro, in a flat in Bristol and speaks to a dream sister. She knows that her mother died giving birth to her but wonders about the tragic circumstances that caused her father to have tattos of tears etched onto his cheeks. A chance encounter leads Tamsen to begin a more active search for the truth about her birth. The search leads her to Ireland where she learns that some of her suspicions are well-founded. But she will have to travel much further before an ultimate truth is unveiled. Teresa seeks understanding of her past from her wealthy, loving, yet secretive, adoptive parents. She has never felt quite a part of the world: her edges blurring, her sense of individuality indistinct. She is haunted by the handsome but brutal Adam, whom she allowed to abuse her for too long. She too searches for answers to the mystery surrounding her birth. A visit to an oriental fortune teller in north London results in some surprising revelations. Her quest will also take her much further afield, to a place where she can find, first of all, herself. A second great read from a great new talent.
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