Find Me Falling

The hauntingly poetic, literary gem

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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'Rare, rich and challenging' —Emma Timpany, author of Travelling in the DarkShe is a traumatised concert pianist, who has found refuge miles from home, in a cliff-top house haunted by memories and broken dreams.The town is desolate, down-its-luck and she wanders its street like the ghost of a life forgotten.He is a road sweeper, visited by neurological hauntings of his own. But when he finds a ring inside a fish and gives it to the passing Bonnie, elemental forces are unleashed that neither is able to control.A magical, literary masterpiece of loss and desperation.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-03-07
Mått130 x 197 x 23 mm
Vikt304 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagFairlight Books
ISBN9781912054220

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After a stint as a journalist in Mexico City, Fiona Vigo Marshall combined a long career within the publishing industry in London with writing literature.Her short stories and poems have been nominated for numerous awards, including the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, which she won in 2016 with her short story The Street of Baths. She was a finalist for the Reeds in the Wind International Literary Prize 2021 and her work has appeared in Prospect, Ambit, The Royal Society of Literature Review, Orbis International Literary Journal, The London Journal of Fiction and many other publications.Her debut novel Find Me Falling, published by Fairlight Books in 2019, was shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize 2020. The House of Marvellous Books is her second novel.Fiona was born in London and educated at Somerville College, Oxford.

'The beautiful, vibrating prose pulls the reader into the magical, shifting universe, not letting go until the very end' -Sophie van Llewyn, author of Bottled Goods'Find Me Falling is the perfect title for this dazzling, vertiginous novel. It's a rare, rich and challenging work, full of the colours, smell and touch of the sea' -Emma Timpany, author of Travelling in the Dark'Fiona Vigo Marshall's poetic style creates a haunting, mysterious atmosphere' -Helen Stancey, author of The Madonna of the Pool'The evocation of the eerie alternate realities that are just a few misfiring neurones away for us all stays with the reader long after the last page is turned' -Dr Sallie Baxendale, Consultant Neuropsychologist, Department of Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy Institute of Neurology, UCL