Fire Child - Softcover

Sally Emerson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747400849 ISBN 13: 9780747400844

Publisher: Sphere Books, 1988

Synopsis

Tessa, an estate agent's clerk, enlists the aid of Martin, a property speculator, to prevent the man responsible for her father's death from marrying her mother

About this title

About the Author:

Sally Emerson has written and worked for various publications, including the Sunday Times and Washington Post. NEW LIFE is the third of Sally's Emerson's remarkable anthologies for the great challenges in life, following on from IN LOVING MEMORY and BE MINE

From Publishers Weekly:

Award-winning London journalist and novelist Emerson ( Listeners ) casts this sardonically witty novel in the form of alternating diaries by a pair of hellbent adolescents who eventually meet and fall in love. Red-haired Martin Sherman is a 20-year-old grocery delivery boy and pyromaniac. Sly minx Tessa Armstrong, a ravishing mymphet of 13, manages to lure men to their destruction. She seduces the fatuous writer Alexander Hartley in a Belfast hotel, where her father discovers them; he is accidentally killed in the ensuing scuffle. By age 20, guilt-wracked Tessa, still lovely with hair gone gray, works in a real estate office, where Martin--now a dabbler in real estate--finds her. The two enclose themselves in the magic circle of their love, shutting out their hypocritical elders, notably their selfish mothers. Here the novel loses its mischievous sparkle, growing somber as penitent Tessa becomes obsessed with the nature of evil, which she studies in transcriptions of her late father's diaries. Emerson is a limber stylist, but the novel's vengeful conclusion seems to sacrifice plausible characterization for a sensational twist of plot.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0747400849
• ISBN 13: 9780747400844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240