'The English Patient' by Michael Ondaatje 'The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher' by Kate Summerscale 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Suzanna Clarke
The series features a selection of titles from the publisher's thirty year history, curated by Alison Hennessey, editorial director of Bloomsbury imprint Raven Books. A haunting and satisfying read.Bloomsbury Books are releasing their Modern Classics range in new limited edition paperback editions, with new cover art from Dan Mumford, Ivan Belikov, Kerry Hyndman, Matt Taylor, Jonathan Burton, Matt Saunders, Rui Ricardo, Tim McDonagh, Ileana Soon and Richie Stewart. As the lives of these people interconnect a poetically told tale unravels the stories of each individual. It might all have become completely melodramatic if it wasn’t so perfectly and beautifully well-written.Ī modern classic, this story of four damaged people is beautiful, harrowing and moving.
The hero cannot return to rescue the heroine. The wife tries to break it off, then the half-crazed husband attempts to kill three of them in a plane-crash. There is the handsome, mysterious foreigner, a war-torn background, the uptight English marriage about to be blown apart by a passionate affair and ensuing volcanic eruption of emotions. It follows two love stories, one between a soldier and a nurse which unfolds as the book progresses and the other in the past, being slowly re-told. The English Patient is a dream of a romantic novel.
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