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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