| Title : | Natural flights of the human mind | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Clare Morrall, Author | | Publisher: | Hodder and Stoughton Ltd | | Publication Date: | 2006 | | Pagination: | 390 p. | | Size: | 20 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-340-89651-8 | | General note: | The captivating new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour. | | Class number: | 823.92 | | Abstract: | In a disused lighthouse on the Devon coast lives Peter Straker, a recluse who, in his dreams, is visited by an oddly disparate group of people from a grandmother to a teenager. But they have all been dead for 24 years - and Straker thinks he killed them. Many years ago, newly-married Imogen Doody's husband went to work one day and never came back, leaving her angry at life and other people. Now Imogen has inherited a cottage near Straker's lighthouse, a piece of good fortune she badly needs. But the cottage is falling down, and she needs help restoring it...Guilt, emotional bruising and a Tiger Moth plane lie at the heart of this story of two misfits. Related with infectious warmth and wit, it is a testament to the essential goodness and resilience of the human spirit. |
Natural flights of the human mind [printed text] / Clare Morrall, Author . - London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 2006 . - 390 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN : 978-0-340-89651-8 The captivating new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour. | Class number: | 823.92 | | Abstract: | In a disused lighthouse on the Devon coast lives Peter Straker, a recluse who, in his dreams, is visited by an oddly disparate group of people from a grandmother to a teenager. But they have all been dead for 24 years - and Straker thinks he killed them. Many years ago, newly-married Imogen Doody's husband went to work one day and never came back, leaving her angry at life and other people. Now Imogen has inherited a cottage near Straker's lighthouse, a piece of good fortune she badly needs. But the cottage is falling down, and she needs help restoring it...Guilt, emotional bruising and a Tiger Moth plane lie at the heart of this story of two misfits. Related with infectious warmth and wit, it is a testament to the essential goodness and resilience of the human spirit. |
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