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'Inventive and gripping ... Parkhurst handles the quest formula with originality and humour' -- Literary Review 'If you like a tear-jerker with a twist you'll adore this. In the vein of Maggie O'Farrell's After You'd Gone, it deals with the loss of a loved one' - Glamour 'One of those rare novels ... that intrigues, pulls on the heartstrings and confuses you all at once' -- Time Out 'A shimmering fictional portrait of love and loss' -- Scotsman 'Prepare to have your heart smashed into melancholy pieces' -- Elle 20030801 'Mesmerising and unusual ... The book is beautifully written and, alongside thriller-like elements, packs a powerful emotional punch' -- Good Housekeeping 20030801 'An extraordinarily moving novel, poised halfway between a lament and a mystery ... A novel to be read in one sitting, LORELEI'S SECRET is one of this summer's "must read" books' -- Big Issue (in the North) 20030801 'Captivatingly strange ... perilously adorable' -- New York Times 20030620 'Wonderfully inventive and slyly funny' -- Alexei Sayle, Telegraph Book of the Year 20030620 'A heartbreaking exploration of memory and language, grief and redemption' -- Esquire 20030701 'This tightly woven tale has all the right stuff: romance, suspense, fantasy, and an ending that does not disappoint.' -- Red magazine (US) 20030601 'Part love story, part psychological thriller and a thumping good read' -- Livewire 20030801 'A quirky and endearing love triangle' -- Marie Claire (US) 20030701 'Carolyn Parkhurst writes as well about talking dogs and square eggs as she does about the limits of language and the intractable mysteries of the self. 'Lorelei's Secret' is a strange, beautiful and very moving novel that asks us to look, in equal measure, at the puzzle that is grief and the puzzle that is love.' -- Elizabeth Graver, author of 'The Honey Thief' and 20030701 'Carolyn Parkhurst's 'Lorelei's Secret' --so luminous, heartbreaking, comic, and daring--is an astonishing debut. Parkhurst writes of love and loss, and, above all, of what we can and cannot know of one another, with power and deeply earned grace.' -- Richard McCann, author of 'Ghost Letters' 20030701 'Shimmers with idiosyncratic intrigue ... a humanistic parable of the heart's confusions.' -- Entertainment Weekly 20030613 'The most unique and imaginative book I have read in recent times. Parkhurst is a wonderful writer and her story is daring, tender and full of surprises as well as wisdom and insight. I simply could not put it down.' -- John Searles, author of 'Boy Still Missing'; Senio 20030613 'Every once in a while a book comes along that knocks you for six. Lorelei's Secret is just such a novel. It made me laugh and cry and most importantly, avidly read until the last page' -- ABTA 20030801 'This is the kind of book you stay up all night to finish' -- Image 20030801 'Carolyn Parkhurst's startling, achingly compelling first novel ... Part mystery, part thriller and all love story, this is a painfully evocative work, and Parkhurst is that rare thing - a "promising new talent" who turns out to be exactly that' -- Sunday Business Post 20030801 'a charming, tender study in grief' -- Marian Keyes, The Week 20030801
Kurzbeschreibung
Pankhurst's novel of love, grief and the search for truth wom many admirers when published last year, including being chosen as one of "The Observer's" best five debut novels. Appeal for the Maggie O'Farrell and Alice Sebold market.
