- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Two Ravens Press (21 Mar 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906120560
- ISBN-13: 978-1906120566
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,278,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A true work of the imagination transporting Prospero's island, and us, to wartime Britain on a shining wave of sea images.' Maureen Duffy
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Hesketh, an artist, is isolated with her daughter Kezia on a remote island coast where they came for sanctuary ten years ago. The effort of trying to maintain her powers of creation has turned her half-mad. Their only neighbour, Crambo, is a wild elemental, bereft of speech, who lives on the beach. An unknown wounded officer arrives to convalesce with Hesketh and Kezia, but far from being the expected eligible stranger, Fitz is an exiled anti-hero whose love is reserved for London, play-making, and Meredith, a poet. Their strange existence is threatened by the arrival of a machine-gun crew who not only pollute the beach, but awaken dumb Crambo to the new powers of language - and explosives. As war creeps ever closer, a violent sea-change brings all these castaways to their fate. 'The Principle of Camouflage' is a magical exploration of place, exile and home, the powers and duties of the artist, the restoration of lost things, the discovery of love, and the survival of hope in an apparently doomed world.
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This novel was not bought for what it became - a holiday read. But reading it suited just what I needed: as I relaxed the story became more complex and interesting. Like many good stories, you begin to engage with it on different levels. I started it on a flight to Washington and finished it on terra firma, which, if you read the book, you will see makes sense (indirectly). Some people say covers don't matter. Frances Bingham is well served by a creatively gorgeous cover.
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