EAN: 9781526662538

HELD - ANNE MICHAELS KARTONIERT (TB)

**A Guardian Book of the Autumn 2023** 'Through luminous moments of chance  change  and even
grace  Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows' MARGARET ATWOOD The triumphant
new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces: a soaring and luminous
story of chance and change _________________________________________________ 1917. On a
battlefield near the River Escaut  John lies in the aftermath of a blast  unable to move or
feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts  he is lost to memory - a chance encounter in a
pub by a railway  a hot bath with his lover on a winter night  his childhood on a faraway coast
- as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire  near another river -
alive  but not still whole. Reunited with Helena  an artist  he reopens his photography
business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present  as
ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins
a narrative that spans four generations  moments of connection and consequence igniting and
re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire  comprehension  longing 
transcendence  the sparks fly upward  working their transformations decades later. Held is a
novel like no other  by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful
full of mystery  wisdom and compassion. 'I am blown away by the scale  beauty  weave and
thinking of this book ... It dances with words  time and ideas in a way that seems to reinvent
everything I know about the novel' RACHEL JOYCE

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