Secrets and memories collide in The Twilight Hour, the new novel from bestselling author Nicci Gerrard. 'Be with me now, at the twilight hour. When the light fails.' 'I'm here.' 'Tell me.' 'What shall I tell you?' 'Tell me about us, when we were young. What was it like? What was I like then?' Eleano
The Twilight Hour
β Scribed by Gerrard, Nicci
- Book ID
- 109025333
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 253 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780141963877
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β¦ Synopsis
Secrets and memories collide in The Twilight Hour , the new novel from bestselling author Nicci Gerrard.
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__'Be with me now, at the twilight hour. When the light fails.'
'I'm here.'
'Tell me.'
'What shall I tell you?'
'Tell me about us, when we were young. What was it like? What was I like then?'
Eleanor Lee has lived a fiercely independent existence for over ninety years, but now it's time to tidy her life away - books, photographs, paintings, letters - a lifetime of possessions all neatly boxed up for the last time. But amongst them there are some things that must be kept hidden. And, nearing blindness, Eleanor needs help to uncover them before her children and grandchildren do.
Peter, a young man with a broken heart who feels as lost as Eleanor's past, is employed to help with this task. And together they uncover traces of another life - words...
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