Drowning Rose

Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself...It is winter in London. Eliza Cummings, a ceramics restorer at the V&A Museum, is leaving work when she receives an unexpected phone call. Standing in the haze of the Christmas lights she hears a voice which draws her back twenty-five years - to the night Rose died. But why does Rose's father want her to visit him? Why now? And why is he killing her with kindness when they both know that he blames her for what happened to his daughter? Grief and guilt cast terrible shadows, but as this beautifully wrought story unfolds and the scene shifts from London to the fairy tale landscape of the Swedish countryside - and back in time to Eliza's school days - we learn that generosity, humour and friendship can smooth over and restore even the most broken lives, and that some secrets just can't be kept hidden...

ISBN 140880817X   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781408808177 (What's this?)   Pages 352 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Published in London Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Height (mm) 234 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 153 Publication date 01 Aug 2011   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 823.92   Academic level General

'Her touch is light but acute, her tone easy but flecked with real, black sharpness' Observer 'Accurate and telling. Her avoidance of sentiment makes this reader feel that she really cares for her subject' Elizabeth Jane Howard Praise for Aphrodite's Workshop for Reluctant Lovers: 'A sharp, funny and dazzlingly clever novel ... but, don't be misled by its exuberance, there is a serious purpose at its heart - and courage in tackling one of society's most enduring myths...' Elizabeth Buchan 'Pure romantic comedy, but underlying it is same acerbity that made Shooting Butterflies and Guppies for Tea such an unexpected joy ... Mordantly witty, touching and perceptive, one of those rare books that consoles even as it tells us the truth about love' Independent

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