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The Mermaid Chair

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller

Sue Monk Kidd

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Headline
13 April 2006
Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island where she grew up to establish why her mother has been behaving oddly, she is to find a lot more than she came looking for. A loving, exuberant character, who believes herself to be happy, she has forgotten a hidden part of her spirit - the part represented by the beautiful, vibrant and legendary mermaid carved on a chair in the island's monastery.

When Jessie falls passionately in love with a monk who is close to taking his final vows, she discovers a place in herself that she had never previously imagined could exist. THE MERMAID CHAIR is the story of a woman trying to save her outgrown life - the roles, identities, securities and illusions she had created for herself - before finally emerging as something far more alive and powerful.

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Imprint:   Headline
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 199mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   276g
ISBN:   9780755307630
ISBN 10:   0755307631
Pages:   416
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Author Website:   http://www.SueMonkKidd.com

Sue Monk Kidd is the author of two widely acclaimed memoirs, THE DANCE OF THE DISSIDENT DAUGHTER and WHEN THE HEART WAITS. Her fiction has appeared in several literary journals. She lives beside a salt marsh in Charleston, South Carolina with her husband.

Reviews for The Mermaid Chair: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller

'Sex, an eccentric cast and flashes of the black humour lighten a mid-life meditation on the nature of love, loss and redemption' Scotsman Book clubs, start your engines... [The Mermaid Chair] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss USA Today Her writing is so smart and sharp, she gives new life to old midlife crises, and she draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn't see, and might not have the guts to follow Time Emotionally rich... full of sultry, magical descriptions of life in the South... sure to be another hit for Kidd Publishers Weekly Compelling reading... The writing is soulful in its probing of the human heart and family secrets San Francisco Chronicle It's hard to put this book down for little things like sleeping and eating Elle


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