Lovesong ebook
by Nikki Gemmell
She wrote two books before this one and it was written in 2001
Lovesong is a romance, but it is also a tightly woven thriller, a sumptuous and truly extraordinary work. She wrote two books before this one and it was written in 2001. I will have to see if I can find any others by her because I was very. Пользовательский отзыв - Thorpe-Bowker and Contributors - Books+Publishing.
Love Song is the third novel by Australian author, Nikki Gemmell. It is narrated by Lillie Bird, a young woman who has lived in a cloistered community all her life. For the final eight years she has been kept in virtual isolation by her parents due to an incident when she was just thirteen
Love Song is the third novel by Australian author, Nikki Gemmell. For the final eight years she has been kept in virtual isolation by her parents due to an incident when she was just thirteen. All she knows of the outside world is what she reads in books and magazines, and hears on her short-wave radio, brought by a visiting librarian. When she reaches adulthood, she is impatient to gain her freedom, find love and truly start her life: her parents send her to stay with her grandfather in England.
Lovesong is a romance, but it is also a tightly woven thriller, a sumptuous and truly extraordinary work
Lovesong is a romance, but it is also a tightly woven thriller, a sumptuous and truly extraordinary work. Lovesong is a lovely, lyrical creation that has melody and melancholy aching through its sentences. bewitchingly good’ Elle, Book of the Month. A strange and lovely novel.
A wife, a mother of three, she has everything a woman should want-and yet she has gone numb inside. Locked in a never-ending cycle of chores, errands, and mealtimes, she cannot find a way to live her life with the honesty and passion that once drove her. Even her husband, whom she loves, has never truly touched the core of her being. Only one person has ever come close. In desperation, she returns to the memory of an old love affair-a transformative relationship with consequences she has never fully resolved
At first I struggled with the author's poetic style but it soon became worth it as I began to feel the central character's longing for freedom and discovery and began to experience the heated atmosphere around her. The revelation towards the end of the story made my jaw drop open in shock!
A wife, a mother of three, she has everything a woman should want-and yet she has gone numb inside. International bestselling author Nikki Gemmell writes on the power of quiet in today's shouty world. Quiet comes as a shock in these troubled times. Quietism means 'devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will. a calm acceptance of things as they are'. Gemmell makes the case for why quiet is steadily gaining ground in this noisy age: Why we need it now more than ever.
Nikki Gemmell has written four novels, Shiver, Cleave, Lovesong, The Bride Stripped Bare and The Book Of Rapture, and one non-fiction book, Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart. The criteria for selection included a very individual voice and unmistakeable style, as well as an original choice of subject. Nikki Gemmell was selected along with such novelists as Rick Moody, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Froer, Rohinton Mistry, Tim Winton, Colum McCann, Michel Faber and Hari Kunzru among others. Born in Wollongong, Australia, she now lives in London.
I Take You. Nikki Gemmell. My first instinct, I must admit, was to just delete her book and forget about it, but it’s been a long time since her going, and even though I’ve never stopped hoping it will be her on the end of the line when the phone rings, I feel, now, that I owe it to her to help if I can and. find a publisher for her work.
Select Format: Hardcover. ISBN13: 9780330372930.
Lillie has come a long way from the shimmering heat, big skies and rocky mountains of her home. A long way not just in terms of distance, but in terms of experience. For it is here in England, a land of cold, scuffed and tumbling streets, that she finds the love she has needed for so long. Lovesong is a romance, but it is also a tightly woven thriller, a sumptuous and truly extraordinary work
