The Illuminations
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road
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How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?
Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne's secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Quick-moving and rich with emotion, The Illuminations shines brightly. A once-renowned photographer named Anne is confined to a Scottish retirement home, battling dementia and retreating into her memories of youthful adventures. When we meet her grandson Luke, he is a captain engulfed in the flames of the Afghan War. Andrew O’Hagan, author of the riveting Our Fathers, flips back and forth between his protagonists’ stories—one struggling to remember, the other to forget. As he goes, he creates a vivid portrait of love, loss and family.
