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Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones: A tale of grief and ghosts and at least one small dog - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Pamela A. SwanboroughTheme:Chronological Period/20th Century, Topical/FamilyPublish date:2024-03-21Pages:228
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Two Feathers PressISBN-13:9781763500006ISBN-10:1763500004UPC:9781763500006Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Magical Realism, Family Life, HistoricalBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SC96T03S6V

Distrust and grievance weren't invited to Lizzie Coombe's 100th birthday tea-party. But they came anyway, bearing cold gifts.


As the vicar turns the neighbours against matriarch Lizzie and her misunderstood family-daughter, granddaughter and untamed great-granddaughter-events and people spiral off beyond nostalgia into a place of superstition. Trauma and loss haunt the struggle between mother-daughters, daughter-mothers.


When home and household is attacked by people Lizzie's known all their lives, is there more to lose than respect? When the attack is from within the family, who is to blame? And when flesh and blood is threatened, can any of these love-starved women be saved...


In the legendary landscape of South Wales, the impacts of love and tragedy on the generations are lived out in moments of grief and tenderness, regret and humour.


A community is defined by its history. But history can be as dry as tinder. And as red as fire.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Two Feathers PressISBN-13:9781763500006ISBN-10:1763500004UPC:9781763500006Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Magical Realism, Family Life, HistoricalBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SC96T03S6V
Swanborough, Pamela A.: - P A Swanborough started writing in 2019, winning Best Regional Writer/ runner-up Best Fiction, GMW Emerging Writers' Competition, Writers Victoria the same year, and completing an Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT in 2022. She has short stories published in Australia and the USA. Pam is interested in almost everything, and her writing explores imbalance, the fragility of life and environment, age and memory, and fluid identity. She works in literary/speculative fiction and lyric non-fiction. Melbourne-born but spending half her life in the UK, Pam now lives in rural Victoria and is currently working on a second major writing project while renovating a crumbling ruin with which she feels a natural affinity. Her survival skills are making string and beer. 'Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones' (2024) is her first published novel.
Publisher: Two Feathers Press

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