Ebook {Epub PDF} Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

With its clever juxtaposition of past and present and its mediation of time and change, Peculiar Ground is reminiscent of Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia.”. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) “Thoroughly engaging. Hughes-Hallett is a master storyteller. Her prose is a treasure—evocative, rich, engaging.”/5(49).  · What a boon to write of a debut novelist aged Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a new and unusual talent to watch. Peculiar Ground is published by 4th www.doorway.ru: Susanna Rustin. The Wychwood of Lucy Hughes-Hallett's novel Peculiar Ground, an English estate built in the s, sets the stage for the personal intrigues of characters spanning several centuries and generations. Secluded from the rest of the public, the estate and its enclosed garden are also symbols of social divisions and how they often trap people.

Peculiar Ground par Lucy Hughes-Hallett aux éditions Harper. A Kirkus Best Book of "Unlike anything I've read. With its broad scope and its intimacy and exa. Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. "Unlike anything I've read. With its broad scope and its intimacy and exactness, it cuts through the apparatus of life to the vivid moment. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. It's wonderful."—Tessa Hadley The Costa Award-winning author of The Pike makes her literary fiction debut with an extraordinary historical novel in the spirit of Wolf Hall and Atonement—a great English.

Ms. Hughes-Hallett is a natural heir to A.S. Byatt, delivering a densely patterned novel that shimmers with human interest as it probes our cultural story. Wall Street Journal. 11/06/ Author of an acclaimed biography of the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, Hughes-Hallet offers an enjoyable, sprawling epic debut about an enclosed paradise. Peculiar Ground. by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. X. Critics' Opinion: Readers' Opinion: Not Yet Rated. First Published: Jan , pages Paperback: Jan , pages. Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett is published by Fourth Estate (£). To order a copy for £ go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £10, online.