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Item Details
Title:
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THE EYRIE
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By: |
Stevie Davies |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£12.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0297851411 |
ISBN 13: |
9780297851417 |
Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
Pub. date: |
1 February, 2007 |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
An ex-Communist, a Welsh radical, and a mother on the run from domesticity - the new book from prize-winning novelist Stevie Davis will appeal to fans of Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith |
Synopsis: |
Nobody at The Eyrie is quite like Red Dora - in her eighties, she's a Scots ex-Communist, ex-Trotskyite who fought in the Spanish Civil War. With her fiery brand of radical anticapitalism, she conjures plans of political sabotage and computer hacking. She rails at a society that seems to have forgotten its political roots and a government that doesn't care. But beneath her rage lies a more intimate disappointment, a tragic death she has yet to come to terms with. Eirlys is a madly patriotic Welsh woman with a brass dragon on her door. She is the 'mother' of the The Eyrie's little clan - always providing tea and sympathy. Little do the other residents suspect that Eirlys was once in prison...Hannah comes to The Eyrie to escape years of boredom in a dreary middle-class marriage to a man she never loved. Reveling in her new found freedom, she finds that life at The Eyrie offers surprising new opportunities and an unlikely co-conspirator in Red Dora. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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