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The Photographer's Wife

Suzanne Joinson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:6th Apr '17

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By the author of A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar, an LA Times bestseller: a beautiful and gripping story of love and betrayal, set in 1920s Jerusalem and 1930s Sussex

Jerusalem, 1920: eleven-year-old Prudence feels tensions rising as her architect father launches an eccentric plan to redesign the Holy City. When he employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of the attraction that sparks between Harrington and Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer – a nationalist, intent on removing the British. Years later, in rain-soaked Sussex, Prue opens her door to an unwelcome visitor. What he reveals unravels her world, and she must follow the threads back to secrets buried long ago in Jerusalem…

A haunting, original and beautifully written tale * Paul Torday, bestselling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, on A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar *
Bold and elegant ... An ambitious, accomplished debut * Daily Mail *
Sprightly, engaging and lovingly written * Guardian *
A delicate yet gutsy spirit of adventure pervades its pages ... Joinson writes with a control and vivacity that fires our own dreams of flight * Emylia Hall, author of The Book of Summers *
Captivating … Vivid descriptions of exotic landscapes combined with those of Prudence’s solitary life in a cabin by the sea give the story an ethereal quality … An engaging read filled with tension and surprises on every page * The Lady *

ISBN: 9781408840801

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 290g

352 pages