A Spell of Winter
A British Literature, Romance, Historical book. skate across the icy sea of oilcloth between me and the bookcase. I kneel up in bed and put on...
Bestselling author Helen Dunmore's third novel, A Spell of Winter won the 1996 Orange Prize.Catherine and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - 'the man from nowhere' - they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets, and against the outside world as it moves towards the First World War. As time passes, their...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780141033587 / 141033584
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skate across the icy sea of oilcloth between me and the bookcase. I kneel up in bed and put on Robs coat. Its thick, stiff wool is becoming supple again from the heat of my body night after night. I put the sleeve to my face and Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter // You have to keep on with a house, day after day, I think. Heating, cleaning, opening and closing windows, making sounds to fill the silence, cooking and washing up, laundering and polishing. As soon as you stop, there may as well never have been any life at all. A house dies as quickly as a body. Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter // You live in the past, Kate said. You live in your grandfathers time. But she was wrong. The past was not something we could live in, because it had nothing to do with life. It was something we lugged about, as heavy as a sack of rotting apples. Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter //
Well, this book wasn't what I expected at all. I picked it because I saw it had won the Orange award, and went into it not knowing much else about it. The cover made me think I was in for a romance novel with heaving bosoms and complicated schemes to bring about unexpected and perhaps diasapproved but fortuitous marriage proposals.... This haunting and evocative novel was the first Orange Prize Winner and set a high standard for future hopefuls. Helen Dunmore creates a world which is at once understandable and yet totally different. Rob and Catherine live in virtual isolation in the crumbling old house belonging to their grandfather. It is gradually revealed to us... Spellbinding. Gorgeous lyrical writing but also great characters you cared for. Not surprised it won Orange Prize all those years ago.
