This Shining Life

This Shining Life
Harriet Kline
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Hardback
h223 x 162mm - 320pg
1 Jul 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780857526274
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Exquisitely written debut about family, loss and our need to understand the meaning of life and death. Lovable, easy-going, charming Rich is dying of a brain tumour. Life and soul of every party, adored and relied upon by his family and in particular by his autistic son Ollie, no-one wants to believe what is unfolding in front of them. In an effort to convey his love for them Rich decides to send each of his close relations a present. He asks for Ollie' s help, but the combination of Rick' s vagueness and the pressure that Ollie feels means the task does not go quite to plan. And then more suddenly than expected, Rick dies. How the family learns to comes to terms with the catastrophe,and move on is at the centre of this beautifully written and uplifting novel.
A beautifully written and endlessly touching debut that' s sure to tug your heartstrings. * Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found, and The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper. * An exquisitely beautiful and compelling novel about love, loss and life * Rachel Joyce * Poignant but never maudlin, sweet but never saccharine, This Shining Life give us a heartbroken family, complicated and familiar in the best ways, going through the hardest of times but finding love and hope and, especially, one another. * Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is *
Harriet Kline works part time registering births, deaths and marriages and writes for the rest of the week. Her story Ghost won the Hissac Short Story Competition and Chest of Drawers won The London Magazine Short Story Competition. Other short stories have been published online with Litro, For Books' Sake, and ShortStorySunday, and on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Bristol with her partner and two teenage sons.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780857526274
Published: 1 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Doubleday
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 223mm
Width: 162mm
Spine: 29mm
Weight: 485g
Pages: 320

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