SPIRIT WEDDINGS - Hardcover
'That's you', said Stephen Mason when his son Christopher showed him the photograph. But it wasn't. Though identical in almost every feature, the man in the photograph was a peasant named Baht Way from 'the Great Land', a Far Eastern country whose cruel and beautiful landscape stands in contrast to the glittering 'Great City' which it borders.
This is the haunting starting-point of Spirit Weddings, a literary detective story that explores the themes of identity, illusion and the influence of the past on the present. Stephen has long been settled in England, but he was brought up in the Great City when it was a Free Port under British control. Could Baht Way possibly be the son of one of his sisters - Pauline, now the self-righteously opinionated wife of a vicar, or poor Tessa, a lost soul who died years ago?
Urged on by Christopher, who has his own reasons for meeting his 'ghostly twin', Stephen travels back to the city of his childhood. The facts he uncovers force him to face disconcerting truths about himself, his past and his family, including a terrible act of destructive hypocrisy by someone he thought he knew.
Encompassing the high domestic comedy of a quarrelsome Sunday lunch in the Home Counties and the potent menace of an expedition into a further secret world within the City, Spirit Weddings reinforces Gillian Tindall's reputation as one of Britain's finest novelists. She unlocks her sad, shocking, truthful tale with the mastery of pace and elegant precision of an assured storyteller on superb form.
This is the haunting starting-point of Spirit Weddings, a literary detective story that explores the themes of identity, illusion and the influence of the past on the present. Stephen has long been settled in England, but he was brought up in the Great City when it was a Free Port under British control. Could Baht Way possibly be the son of one of his sisters - Pauline, now the self-righteously opinionated wife of a vicar, or poor Tessa, a lost soul who died years ago?
Urged on by Christopher, who has his own reasons for meeting his 'ghostly twin', Stephen travels back to the city of his childhood. The facts he uncovers force him to face disconcerting truths about himself, his past and his family, including a terrible act of destructive hypocrisy by someone he thought he knew.
Encompassing the high domestic comedy of a quarrelsome Sunday lunch in the Home Counties and the potent menace of an expedition into a further secret world within the City, Spirit Weddings reinforces Gillian Tindall's reputation as one of Britain's finest novelists. She unlocks her sad, shocking, truthful tale with the mastery of pace and elegant precision of an assured storyteller on superb form.
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About the Author:
Gillian Tindall began her career as a prize-winning novelist. She has continued to publish fiction but has also staked out an impressive territory in idiosyncratic non-fiction that is brilliantly evocative of place. Her The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village which first appeared thirty years ago, has rarely been out of print; nor has Celestine: Voices from a French Village, published in the mid 1990s and translated into several languages, for which she was decorated by the French government.
Well known for the quality of her writing and the meticulous nature of her research, Gillian is a master of miniaturist history. She lives with her husband in London.
Well known for the quality of her writing and the meticulous nature of her research, Gillian is a master of miniaturist history. She lives with her husband in London.
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0091745055
- ISBN 13 9780091745059
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages215
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