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Hill, Susan. THE BEACON - Chatto & Windus 2008
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Book Code: 002367
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For sale is a fine hardback copy of the novel, The Beacon by Susan Hill, published in 2008 by Chatto & Windus.
| Title | The Beacon |
|---|---|
| Author | Susan Hill |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
| Edition | first edition, first printing |
| ISBN | 978-0-70118340-0 |
| copyright year | 2008 |
| weight (kg) | 0.430 |
| height (cm) | 21 |
| width (cm) | 14 |
| pages | 154 |
| cover price £/$ | 10.00 |
The book is a first edition, first printing as evidenced by a full numberline on the copyright page.
The book has black boards and silver lettering. The boards have no knocks or signs of wear. Internally there are no marks or inscriptions. The pages are clean and white, have no tears or creases, and the binding is tight and square.
The fine wrapper is complete showing the original cover price of £10.
Overall a fine copy of a novel by a popular author.
The book is not an ex library book, it has no remainder marks or publisher's stamps.
'The farmhouse was called The Beacon and they had been born and reared there, May, Colin, Frank and Berenice, but only May had been left for the last 27 years...' May had been the clever daughter and she had escaped the shelter of The Beacon, just once, to go to university. But in London she had been pursued by nameless terrors, the victim of fears and anxieties. Now she was the spinster daughter, the one who stayed, who nursed her father after his accident and looked after her mother in her old age. Frank was the one who got away. He married and moved on. But why does no one ever mention Frank's name?
Susan Hill has been a full-time writer since 1963 and has written over thirty titles. Since 1977 she has been a monthly columnist for the Daily Telegraph.
She has also written several non-fiction books and books for children (Can It Be True? won the Smarties Prize), as well as editing short story compilations.
As well as writing, she has set up a publishing company, Long Barn Books, inspired by her lifelong admiration for Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press. She also runs a literary magazine, Books and Company, and owns the lease on a gift shop in Chipping Campden.
Financial Times
'captivating new novella ... There is, from the start, a highly charged atmosphere of anxiety and ambiguity'
Times
'Its somnambulism is compelling...It is a moving, evocative and rewarding novel'
The Sunday Times
'Hill's astute and skilful probing of motives and the ambiguities of appearances extends the reach of the novel much wider'
Good Housekeeping
'A clever novel that's timeless in its tension-building storytelling'
Easy Living Magazine
'builds pace towards a tense, unexpected climax that'll leave you satisfyingly unsettled...this is a psychological drama with unnerving punch'
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