*A Pure Clear Light* is Madeleine St John at her Booker Prize-shortlisted best: irony-edged, elegant, compassionate, true. Simon and Flora Beaufort are married with three children: they live a solid comfortable life. Yet both feel the dark abyss, the transitory nature of what underpins their lives
A Pure Clear Light
โ Scribed by St John, Madeleine Lauren;
- Book ID
- 110280598
- Publisher
- The Text Publishing Company
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 143 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781925773101
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โฆ Synopsis
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project...what could go wrong?
A Pure Clear Light examines a marriage at the moment it goes haplessly off-track: Simon succumbs to the temptation of his cool, blonde accountant and Flora heeds the cry of her reawakened faith. Ultimately, though, neither Simon nor Flora can escape the revelation that lies beyond excuses and remorse and candour, at the heart of the phenomenon called love. In St John's hands, what is commonplace is transformed and transcendent.
Madeleine St John was born in Sydney in 1941. Her father, Edward, was a barrister and Liberal politician. Her mother, Sylvette, committed suicide in 1954, when Madeleine was twelve. Her death, she later said, 'obviously changed everything'.
St John studied Arts at Sydney University, where...
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_A Pure Clear Light_ is Madeleine St John at her Booker Prize-shortlisted best: irony-edged, elegant, compassionate, true. Simon and Flora Beaufort are married with three children: they live a solid comfortable life. Yet both feel the dark abyss, the transitory nature of what underpins their lives
*A Pure Clear Light* is Madeleine St John at her Booker Prize-shortlisted best: irony-edged, elegant, compassionate, true. Simon and Flora Beaufort are married with three children: they live a solid comfortable life. Yet both feel the dark abyss, the transitory nature of what underpins their lives
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project...what could go wrong? *A Pure Clear Light* examines a marriage at the moment it goes