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Pearl
About this book
Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother' s love; the smell of fresh herbs, the games they played, and the songs and stories of her childhood. As time passes, Marianne struggles to adjust, fixated on her mother' s disappearance and the secrets she' s sure her father is keeping from her. Discovering a medieval poem called Pearl and trusting in its promise of consolation, Marianne sets out to make a visual illustration of it, a task that she returns to over and over but somehow never manages to complete. Tormented by an unmarked gravestone in an abandoned chapel and the tidal pull of the river, her childhood home begins to crumble as the past leads her down a path of self-destruction. But can art heal Marianne? And will her own future as a mother help her find peace?
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Table of contents
- Praise for Pearl
- Author Biography
- Title Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1: The Wakes
- Chapter 2: Charlotte’s Web
- Chapter 3: Nine Beads at a Time
- Chapter 4: Boiling the Kettle Dry
- Chapter 5: The Laws of Physics
- Chapter 6: Creatures of the Air
- Chapter 7: The Changeling
- Chapter 8: What Was Lost in the Long Grass
- Chapter 9: Lines of Enquiry
- Chapter 10: A Spoon Called Geoffrey
- Chapter 11: Twiglets
- Chapter 12: Gothic
- Chapter 13: Talking to the Dead
- Chapter 14: The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter
- Chapter 15: Practising Pagan
- Chapter 16: Where Babies Come From
- Chapter 17: The Exit Sign
- Chapter 18: Art Therapy
- Chapter 19: A Pair of Iron Shoes
- Chapter 20: The Green Chapel
- Chapter 21: The Problem with Happiness
- Acknowledgements
- Imprint Page
