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Author_Sue Gee
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faith
family
Gail Honeyman
HAMNET
Heart-warming
Helen Dunmore
Herefordshire
Historical Fiction
Historical Romance
industrial change
Joanna Trollope
landscape
literary fiction
Love Story
lyrical
Maggie O'Farrell
Romance
Sarah Winman
social change
Victorian England
Wales
Welsh Countryside
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SINGS
Product details
- ISBN 9780755303106
- Weight: 250g
- Dimensions: 131 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 02 May 2005
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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It's the winter of 1860 when Richard Allen, a young curate, travels to a small hamlet outside Hereford to take up his first position. It's in this quiet place of wind and trees, birds and water that Richard is to fall passionately in love - but he cannot find fulfilment, for his lover is Susannah Beddoes, the wife of the vicar of his new parish. As Richard's feelings challenge him to his core, he develops a strange relationship with another woman, the solitary and eccentric Edith Clare. Against the backdrop of immense social and industrial change, the consequences of Richard and Susannah's affair are dramatic as they - as well as Oliver Beddoes - grapple with doubt and what it means to lose faith when the great certainties are in question. And throughout it all, the crossing-keeper's daughter Alice Birley - an observer of incidents and events she does not fully understand - has her own part to play...
Sue Gee is is the author of nine novels. She is Programme Leader for the MA Writing Programme at Middlesex University, and lives in London.
