Three things about Elsie / Joanna Cannon.
Material type: TextPublisher: London, England : The Borough Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 455 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780008196943
- 000819694X
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection | Fiction Collection | CANN | Checked out | 11/04/2024 | T00801799 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Sunday Times Bestseller
'Lovely, lovely, lovely... Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe' MARIAN KEYES
'Powerful and profound' Guardian
'Another sure-fire hit' Daily Mail
'Funny, melancholy, acutely observant' Sunday Express
'Cannon is so attuned to other people's stories... a chronicler both of the human condition and the quotidian details which speak to who we are' Guardian
84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew - a man who died sixty years ago. His arrival has stirred distant memories she and Elsie thought they'd laid to rest. Lying prone in the front room, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light ...
84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew -- a man who died sixty years ago. His arrival has stirred distant memories she and Elsie thought they'd laid to rest. Lying prone in the front room, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light.