‘An intensely gripping book … written so seductively that some passages sing out from the page, like music for the eyes’ – Sunday Times
Talking to the Dead
Bound together since childhood by the sudden death of their baby brother, Isabel and Nina know too much about one another, and their knowledge could destroy their adult lives. When Nina embarks on an affair with Isabel’s husband, the fuse is lit and the past is suddenly alive and dangerous.
‘In Talking to the Dead her capacity for hauntingly psychological storytelling is on brilliant display. She unwinds powerful themes – sibling love, retrieved memory, fear, the violence of children … This is a memorable and assured work’ – Sunday Times
‘Helen Dunmore is a writer of quiet, deadly power … This is taut, committed writing at its best, and it takes about two paragraphs to hook you. Don’t resist’ – Time Out
‘Thrilling … a book to read in one enthralled sitting’ – The Times
THE BEGINNING
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This selection first published by Viking 1997
Published in Penguin Books 1998
First published as an electronic edition in Penguin Books 2014
Copyright © Helen Dunmore, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997
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ISBN: 978-0-241-97189-5