- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Flame; New edition edition (1 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340748672
- ISBN-13: 978-0340748671
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,373,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tamsen has always felt someone missing - perhaps a man, or perhaps the mother who died when she was born. Teresa feels like she lives on the edge of someone else's vision - perhaps because of adoption or the beatings from Adam. As the two women become closer, their answers are 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.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
"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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Crysse Morrison has done it again -produced a book which tantalises till the last page. Two powerful portraits are drawn, of young 21st century women, together with their very different parents and lives. There is Teresa, adopted, protected daughter of a media/showbiz couple, who's never really known who she is. Emerging from a violent relationship, Teresa is just starting to think for herself and sets out on her first acting job. By contrast Tamsen has her own hair salon in Bristol, a mixed-race son and gentle hippy father. She is much more confident, but then her step -brother comes to visit from Ireland, and she finds herself wondering just what did happen the night she was born, the night her mother died. Sleeping In Sand is a powerful, deeply empathetic novel, set in Bristol, London, and Gambia. It includes the best fictional description I have read of what it's like to live with someone who's violent, who plays psychological games convincing you it's all your fault. It features women we can identify with. All in all, a fascinating picture of life in Britain today.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Crysse Morrisons haunting second novel tells the story of a woman who becomes convinced that she has a sister who is alive but whom she has never met. At a crucial juncture in their lives their stories start to converge, but will they ever meet up? A bare summary of the novels premise cannot convey the delicate subtlety of Crysse Morrisons plotting. The action moves between Bristol, Dublin and Gambia where characters and events mirror and echo each other. Incidents glimpsed on the periphery of our vision and fragments of conversation half overheard slowly build up to an incredible revelation. Part of the books magic is to make us feel that, if we listen carefully, we too may suddenly become aware of the hidden movements of the cosmos, the huge, awesome rotation of the galaxies in space. The novel skilfully creates a mysterious sense of synchronicity and of the joys and terrors of being alive.
This novel is remarkable also for the sensousness of its prose, its gentle humour and the humanity of its vision. It also manages to acknowledge the darker and more troubling aspects of human beings while holding onto the hope that all of us are on a journey into healing.
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