Bibliograph

Death and the seaside, Alison Moore

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Death and the seaside, Alison Moore

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Death and the seaside

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Alison Moore

Summary

Nearing thirty, with an abandoned literature degree and half-hearted dreams of becoming a writer, Bonnie Falls gives in to her parents' insistence that she finally move out of their home and takes up residence in a shabby first-floor flat with a concrete garden. When her landlady takes an uncommon interest in her-and one of her unfinished stories-Bonnie's aspirations are rekindled, and when Sylvia suggests the two of them take a summer holiday to a seaside town oddly similar to the one in which the story is set, Bonnie is quickly persuaded to accompany the enigmatic older woman. A tense exploration of power and vulnerability, obsession and manipulation, Death and the Seaside is a masterpiece of form and gripping psychological novel about the stories that we tell ourselves

Target audience

adult

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