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Shame
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REDEMPTION IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY - or so Pilgrim Jones hopes as she looks up at a departures board and takes the first flight.
She is running away; from her failed marriage and from the carnage she has caused in a small Swiss village.
Pilgrim alights on the edge of Africa. Over confessions and strong gin, she is lured into a world of mercenaries and philanthropists, delusional heroes and witchdoctors in polyester suits. Here, in a land where fireflies light the sky, anything - even redemption - seems possible.
But can she come to terms with her past before the past catches up with her?
She is running away; from her failed marriage and from the carnage she has caused in a small Swiss village.
Pilgrim alights on the edge of Africa. Over confessions and strong gin, she is lured into a world of mercenaries and philanthropists, delusional heroes and witchdoctors in polyester suits. Here, in a land where fireflies light the sky, anything - even redemption - seems possible.
But can she come to terms with her past before the past catches up with her?
'Haunting and atmospheric - I was completely hooked' Leila Aboulela
'Melanie Finn's second novel lives up to the promise of her first. Shame pulls off the feat of being both chilling and redemptive. She explores vast themes - the solitude of bereavement, the eternal nature of maternal love, the irony of fate - with a light, deft touch.' Michela Wrong, author of It's Our Turn to Eat and Borderlines
'Melanie Finn's second novel lives up to the promise of her first. Shame pulls off the feat of being both chilling and redemptive. She explores vast themes - the solitude of bereavement, the eternal nature of maternal love, the irony of fate - with a light, deft touch.' Michela Wrong, author of It's Our Turn to Eat and Borderlines
- ISBN:
- 9780297608448
- Publication Date:
- 2015-03-12
- Publisher:
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Page Count:
- 309
- Size:
- 8.88" l x 5.63" w x 1.13" h
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- Fiction
Category
- Literary
- Contemporary
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