Partial Eclipse: A Novel (2)

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Synopsis
Between Scotland and Botany Bay, two incarcerated young women—a century apart—are united by crime—in this &“brilliant&” novel from the award-winning author (Nick Hornby). Jennifer Maybee is in solitary confinement, imprisoned for an undisclosed crime. Deprived of companionship and driven desperate by grim routine, she has only &“memory and imagination&” for escape. But she isn&’t the first in her family to be convicted of a crime. Ever since she was a young girl, Jennifer has been fascinated with stories about her cousin Peggy. A century before, Peggy was a desperate young mother, tried, convicted, and deported to the penal colony of Botany Bay, in Australia. All for the theft of a peacock. Just imagine the degradation she suffered to possess a thing of beauty. Jennifer does. Jennifer remembers what she herself longed to possess, too. He was a jazz musician, thirty years her senior, whom she met one Christmas in Scotland—and whose fleeting attention sparked in her an obsessive, unyielding, and dangerous passion. Now, as Jennifer and Peggy&’s parallel lives unfold, love stories are woven from squalid obsessions, memories collide with the truth, and Jennifer&’s long-held secrets will be revealed as she struggles with her fate, and the storied one of a woman long lost to history. In Lesley Glaister&’s &“enormously enjoyable&”(Nick Hornby), Digging to Australia, Jennifer Maybee was first introduced as a girl &“frighteningly adroit at inflicting pain on those close to her&”(Los Angeles Times). The consequences arise in Partial Eclipse, where &“everyone seems to be set on self-destruct, blindly chasing after the wrong dream or man or peacock&” (The Independent).
Copyright:
1994

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
212 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781497694149
Publisher:
Open Road Media
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Lesley Glaister
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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