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Landfall

Helen Gordon

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English
Penguin
19 September 2012
With echoes of Evie Wyld and the films of Sofia Coppola, Landfall marks the arrival of a significant new British talent for the 21st Century

What if one day you decided you'd had enough of your current life?

Alice Robinson, art critic for a magazine so fashionable it's just gone out of business, finds herself agreeing to housesit for her parents. Moving back home to a suburbia she thought long behind her, she finds herself reconnecting with a different landscape, a fraught and painful past.

For everywhere Alice turns she finds traces of her sister, who went missing as a teenager. Can she stop her old life intruding on the present? Should she even try? What does Alice's new future look like?
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   200g
ISBN:   9780241954423
ISBN 10:   0241954428
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Landfall

Quirky, compelling, unpredictable ... layers peel away almost imperceptibly and the ending is surreal yet believable The Times A charming and compelling novel Observer For the most part it's an uplifting, witty tale, but the ending is wonderfully unsettling, forcing us to consider whether the guidelines we follow really will lead to a more satisfying life Psychologies Compulsively readable, with a silky smooth pace Independent A memorable novel. I loved the pace and verve of Alice's voyage from Shoreditch to suburbia, and the unexpectedness of the story as it swerves past the familiar into a dangerous and beautiful unknown -- Helen Dunmore An intriguing debut ... Landfall takes a gratifying left field swerve Metro Written with pluck and humour Independent Beautifully descriptive, with a cliff-hanger finale Easy Living


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