Night Waking
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781847082152 (1847082157)
Publish date: February 1st 2011
Publisher: Granta Books (UK)
Pages no: 378
Edition language: English
I bought this as a 99p Amazon deal of the day, knowing nothing about it..and was immediately hooked into this story of a pair of academics and their two children living on a remote scottish island. Dad is an ecologist studying birds, while signally failing to notice the distress of his equally intel...
I bought this as a 99p Amazon deal of the day, knowing nothing about it..and was immediately hooked into this story of a pair of academics and their two children living on a remote scottish island. Dad is an ecologist studying birds, while signally failing to notice the distress of his equally intel...
Set on a tiny Hebridean island, Night Waking is the story of Anna, academic and mother of two small children, who is working on a book about childhood in the eighteenth century while her own children are driving her to distraction and her aristocratic husband studies puffins, oblivious to the demand...
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/213130051
Too much of put-upon wife and useless husband, comic chick lit set pieces about food on clothes etc, disguised as a social/historical thriller on why babies died on the islands - what a surprise.
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