Erringby - Gill Darling

Descriere Erringby - Gill Darling

\nA literary drama and loose reimagining of Great Expectations, unfolding against the changing cultural landscape of the 1970s, '80s and '90s \n Kit is waiting expectantly for life to begin. Orphaned as a young child, he recoils from his adoptive parents' mundane existence, drawn instead to the bohemian world of his Uncle Col and Col's charismatic wife Marianne. Amid the permissive atmosphere of Erringby, Marianne's rambling family mansion, Kit becomes increasingly obsessed with his aunt. One debauched summer, the eighteen-year-old Kit wakes to find himself in bed with Marianne. But what happened? And who is his sudden mysterious benefactor? As Kit grapples with the ramifications of that night, he, Marianne and Col find their lives spiralling out of control. Unfolding against the changing cultural landscape of the seventies, eighties and nineties, Erringby is a captivating coming-of-age novel with echoes of Great Expectations.\n

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Brand

Fairlight Books

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781912054350

Magazine

1

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