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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Cover; Author biography; Title page; Dedication; Epigraph; The Cork Letters; June 1st 1969; June 6th 1969; The Perth Letters; 19/09/2011; 30th September 2011; The Bournemouth Letters; June 1st '48; June 3rd '48; The Cork Letters; June 8th 1969; 11 June 1969; The Perth Letters; 9/10/2011; 18th October 2011; The Bournemouth Letters; June 4th-6th '48; June 9th '48; The Cork Letters; 14th June 1969; 20th June 1969; The Perth Letters; 01/11/11; 20th November 2011; The Bournemouth Letters; June 11th '48; June 12th-15th '48; The Cork Letters; 22nd June 1969; 25th June 1969; The Perth Letters |
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04/12/201115th December 2011; The Bournemouth Letters; June 22nd '48; June 24th '48; June 25th '48; The Cork Letters; 28th June 1969; The Perth Letters; 27/12/2011; 6th January 2012; The Bournemouth Letters; June 29th '48; June 30th '48; Acknowledgments; Imprint page |
| Summary |
With the readability of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the literary grace of Colm Tóibin, this brilliant debut novel satisfies on all levels. Three stories, three secrets, three marriages. In a coastal village in Cork in 1969, a Russian painter and his Irish novelist wife write letters to one another as they try to come to terms with a fatal illness. On Australia's west coast in 2011, a bookseller writes to her estranged partner in an attempt to understand what has happened to their relationship. In Bournemouth in 1948, a retired English doctor writes lett |
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
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Married people -- Fiction
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Families -- Fiction
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FICTION -- Literary.
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Families
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Interpersonal relations
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Married people
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780702251016 |
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0702251011 |
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