Limestone
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A fabulous multi-levelled novel, shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Awards.
Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an art history conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to buy a packet of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. She is urged on her way by chance encounters: with a woman in a high tower, a blind man at a crossroads, a singer whose song she does not understand . . . Clues lie all around on a labyrinth of walls - but the final clue lies deep within.
With Irish roots and a nod to the Irish classic, The Year of the Hiker by John B. Keane, this is a contemporary novel about inheritance, belief, art, love . . . and limestone.
Customer Reviews
Limestone
This is my first reading of Fiona Farrell. What touched me about the book was the way she managed to take us gently into natural history, explaining how limestone came into being , and, at the same time took us on the poignant journey of a daughter seeking the father who walked out when she was a child, and , thirdly took us on an 'oh so familiar' plane journey overseas. We travel with her simultaneously through time, memory and space. Beautifully written and absorbing from the first word.