A Country of Eternal Light
Paperback Published on: 03/08/2023
Price: £9.99
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A novel that will stay with you for longer than you might expect
Aberdonian housewife and mother Margaret is long dead from cancer as we journey with her revisiting fragmented scenes from her life and from the present. A... READ MORE
Original and unforgettable
As funny as it is sad A Country of Eternal Light is an exploration of love and loss and the everyday moments that make up our lives, it is a book to linger... READ MORE
Synopsis
Shortlisted for The Age Fiction Book of the Year 2023
Margaret Bryce has been having a hard time since dying in 2014.
In a place beyond, we join Margaret as she revisits her life, from her Aberdeen prefab childhood to the birth of her twin girls, through Thatcher's Britain, the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, Australia's Black Summer bushfires, the death of Princess Diana and the COVID pandemic. But something isn't quite right. Margaret is trying to remember, but also fighting to forget.
A Country of Eternal Light will take you on a journey like no other. It is an utterly original, bitingly funny and poignant novel about life, death, what we choose to remember - and what we'd do anything to forget.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Birlinn General
- ISBN: 9781846976438
- Number of pages: 304
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
- Weight: 261g
- Languages: English