Book description
It is 1979 and in a ramshackle cottage in Northumberland
fifteen-year-old Ruth is desperate to leave behind the gradual
implosion of her parents' marriage as she pursues her own quest for
love and excitement. Fantasies about the son of the local farmer offer
a temporary distraction from the rising tensions at home but Ruth soon
discovers that the family are coming to terms with a very different tragedy...
Told largely from the darkly humorous perspective of Ruth, Jane
Feaver's novel is an engaging and profound insight into the
relationships within families and the nature of love and loss, of
grief and grieving.
Jane Feaver was born in Durham in 1964. After reading English at
university she worked at the Pitt Rivers Museum and then in the Poetry
Department at Faber and Faber. In 2001 she moved to Devon with her
daughter. Her second novel,
Love Me Tender
, was met with critical acclaim.
