- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (13 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330376683
- ISBN-13: 978-0330376686
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 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: 4,248,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Eight years after sentence, Joe Feather returns to the village where he murdered his lover after finding her in bed with her ex-husband. The only people on his side are a handful of women using their good deed with Joe as a way of working through their own problems.
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BILLLINGTON EXAMINES THE NATURE OF GUILT AND REDEMPTIVE LOVE
Set in the romantic folds of an English valley and behind the bars of a high-security prison, at London's political party of the year and in the social heart of Manhattan, Tiger Sky is both a complex human drama and a wider exploration of the way society deals with a man who has crossed the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.
Set in the romantic folds of an English valley and behind the bars of a high-security prison, at London's political party of the year and in the social heart of Manhattan, Tiger Sky is both a complex human drama and a wider exploration of the way society deals with a man who has crossed the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.
In her compelling and disturbing new novel, Rachel Billington examines the nature of guilt and redemptive love. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Joe Feather is an apparently gentle and unassuming farmer in a quiet village when he hears his girlfriend in bed with her ex-husband and strangles her. He is jailed for life, but having served 16 years he is released on licence. He goes back to live in the same village but encounters resistance to him from villagers who have known him since he was born, who now see him as a murderer and a threat to their village. He is presented with a petition asking him to leave. Joe is supported in his attempts to re-integrate into the village by his probation officer and by a woman who had been visiting him in prison. He also becomes the focus of another woman who is seeking to establish herself as a journalist by writing a serious piece about offenders returning to society. Joe's supporters all have their own issues and he becomes their way of working through these, albeit subconsciously. The book is fascinating in its coverage of the reactions of the villagers to Joe - how would any of us react to a murderer moving into our small community? My view is that this alone would have been enough for the book and that the other storylines proved a bit of a distraction. The re-integration theme is sufficiently strong to sustain the book. If you've read Bodily Harm, this covers some similar issues, but is not as strong a book in my view.
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