A Gathering Light
Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly
Based on a real murder at the turn of the century, this outstanding debut novel is a powerful and moving coming-of-age book. Mattie is torn between her familial responsibilities, her desire to be a writer, and the excitement of a first romance. Her dilemmas and choices are reflected in the life of a young woman found drowned in a lake, a woman that Mattie only gets to know through reading her letters. When finally the tales of Mattie and the drowned girl merge, their stories beautifully combine in a brilliant and perfect conclusion.
Product Information
Winner of the Carnegie Medal and picked for Richard and Judy's Book Club Published as part of the Bloomsbury 21st Birthday Celebrations Includes reading group guide
'A wonderfully rich, involving and beautifully written book' Guardian 'Nobody got fed whilst I read A Gathering Light. If George Clooney had walked into the room I would have told him to come back later' Dinah Hall, Sunday Telegraph 'Breathtakingly good' Daily Mail 'A remarkable debut, a book that sweeps across the genre boundaries of murder, mystery, romance and historical fiction gripping and touching' Scott Turow
Jennifer Donnelly lives in Brooklyn, New York. This is her first novel and marks the beginning of an incredibly assured and confident literary voice.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 31 December 2006
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 416
- : 813.6
- : 21st birthday celebratory ed
- : Paperback
- : Jennifer Donnelly