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Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Broken Light

Joanne Harris (author)

Hardback Published on: 11/05/2023

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Synopsis

A bold and timely novel that explores how women can feel invisible as they grow older- and what happens when they decide to take back control.

Bernie Moon's ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone else - including Bernie herself. At 19 she was full of promise, but now facing 50 and going through the menopause, she's a fading light. Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of childhood memories, and with them, a talent that she has hidden all her adult life.

What happens when the frustrations and power of an older woman are finally given their chance to be revealed?

Publisher information

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781398710825
Number of pages: 432
Dimensions: 238 x 158 x 40 mm
Weight: 665g
Languages: English

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Beautifully written

This deserves 5 stars just for the beautiful prose; phrases that can be savoured and enjoyed just for their beauty and depth. This has always been Joanne ... READ MORE

Susan S

Superb

4.5 rounded up ‘Little girl. Make them look’. As a child Bernie Moon is seen as different, strange and is an outsider. By 16, she’s transformed, they s... READ MORE

Celia Short

Intriguing and thought provoking

Whether it be through the magic of Vianne Rocher and her world of chocolate or the Machiavellian world of St Oswald’s school, Joanne Harris is a consummate... READ MORE

Stephen - The Bookworm

Ok. Enjoyed

As you’ve gotten older do you or have you tended to fade into the background, feel invisible.? Odd question….right? Bernie is fast approaching 50 years... READ MORE

ReadAlongWithSue

Broken Light by Joanne Harris

Broken Light by Joanne Harris is a strange and unexpected book by the author, which took me a while to read. I have now finished it and feel unexpectedly b... READ MORE

Christine Rennie

A brilliant read

A new Joanne Harris book is something I always get excited about, I have been a fan since reading Chocolat nearly twenty five years ago. Her new offering B... READ MORE

Juliet Butler

Utterly brilliant - fun and uplifting

Broken Light touches on so many important issues - the invisibility felt by menopausal women, the toxicity of social media, horrific bullying power of the ... READ MORE

KimG9

Beautifully written and thought provoking work of literary fiction with paranormal elements

“I know she was thinking about a night thirty years ago, when the same fairy lights hung from the trees, and the same music filtered through the open Frenc... READ MORE

Vivienne O'Regan

Unsettling, sly and mesmerising

Struggling with the menopause, Bernie Moon sees her life a wife and mother but not as a person. Then something odd happens, a skill she had as a child sud... READ MORE

Jo-anne Atkinson

Couldn't finish it

Sadly Joanne decided to 'go there' and use my name in a negative way in this book, when there was absolutely no need. Ironic that the book is about a menop... READ MORE

KAREN WILD

'It starts as all these stories do. With blood'

Joanne Harris’s latest novel, Broken Light begins with the blood of menstruation, decades in the past, while the onset of the menopause is the trigger for ... READ MORE

Amanda Kendal

Broken Light

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