Lydia Syson

Mr Peacock's Possessions (eBook, ePUB)

THE TIMES Book of the Year

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An intimate, intense and beautifully realised novel of possession, power and the liberating loss of innocence, this will delight fans of MISTER PIP and THE POISONWOOD BIBLE.

Oceania, 1879. For two years the Peacocks, a determined family of settlers, have struggled to make a remote volcanic island their home. At last, a ship appears. The six Pacific Islanders on board have travelled over eight hundred miles in search of new horizons.

Hopes are high, until a vulnerable boy vanishes.

In their search for the lost child, settlers and newcomers together uncover far more than they were looking for. The island's secrets force young Lizzie Peacock to question her deepest convictions, and slowly this tiny, fragile community begins to fracture . . .

'Intelligent, beautifully written'
The Times

'Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author'
Stella Magazine

'Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined'
Lancashire Evening Post

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781471403705
• Artikelnr.: 53220388

Autorenporträt

Lydia Syson

Rezensionen

Syson's novel, a modern take on the literary genre known (after Robinson Crusoe) as the robinsonade, is a haunting exploration of Lizzie's disillusion with her father's dreams and their damaging consequences The Sunday Times