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Facing the Light

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Family secrets unravel during matriarch's birthday.

If you're drawn to stories where a single event unfolds layers of hidden truths, "Facing the Light" might resonate with you. Celebrations at Willow Court reveal more than just familial affection. With an artist's legacy casting shadows on the present, Adele Geras's novel invites you to a family gathering that becomes a revelation, and potentially a redemption, for an entire lineage. Witnessing the unraveling of tightly held secrets against the backdrop of a grand English home could be as captivating as it is thought-provoking.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Facing the Light

Regular price ₱440.55
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ISBN: 9780752842844
Authors: Adèle Geras
Publisher: Orion
Date of Publication: 2004-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Drama, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.56
(rated by 374 readers)

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An extended family gathers in late August to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of its formidable matriarch, Leonora. She is the daughter of the famous Edwardian painter Ethan Walsh, whose paintings are kept at the family home, Willow Court in Wiltshire. At Leonora's house party will be her daughters, Gwen and Rilla, whom she raised alone after she was widowed in her late twenties; Rilla's stepdaughter Beth; and Gwen's husband and three children with their spouses and lovers. One outsider joins the group: Sean Everard, a television director who's making a documentary about the life and work of Ethan Walsh. All families have their dark side and Leonora's is no exception. By the time the marquee is dismantled and all the guests have gone their separate ways, two shocking past events have come to light, to rock complacency and change for ever the lives of Leonora and her daughters.
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Family secrets unravel during matriarch's birthday.

If you're drawn to stories where a single event unfolds layers of hidden truths, "Facing the Light" might resonate with you. Celebrations at Willow Court reveal more than just familial affection. With an artist's legacy casting shadows on the present, Adele Geras's novel invites you to a family gathering that becomes a revelation, and potentially a redemption, for an entire lineage. Witnessing the unraveling of tightly held secrets against the backdrop of a grand English home could be as captivating as it is thought-provoking.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.