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Talking to the dead

Hardcover • 1996 • English

Talking to the dead

By Helen Dunmore

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Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic for its elegant and sensuous prose, "Talking to the Dead" tells the story of two sisters whose lives are bound by the hidden and surprising truth about the long-ago death of their infant brother. Talking of the Dead was the fourth novel published in 1996 by British author Helen Dunmore, a "chilling tie of sibling rivalry and sudden infant death", and has been described as one of the best novels in the 1990s.[1] It was her first novel to be publish...Show more

Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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ISBN

9780670870028

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

Talking to the dead

Format

Hardcover

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