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The Lake of Dreams
By Kim Edwards
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Description
The darkest secrets are the ones we hide from ourselves. . .
Ten years ago traumatized by her father's death Lucy left her home and her country. Now she returns to her family's rambling lakeside home to lay old ghosts to rest.
Sleepless one night Lucy makes a momentous discovery. Locked in a moonlit window seat is a collection of family heirlooms - objects whose secrets no one was ever supposed to find. Piecing together her family's true history she realises that the story she has always been told was a fiction . . .
Mesmerizing and haunting The Lake of Dreams is a startling story of family secrets and lies lost love and redemption and of the many pieces and puzzles that make up a life.
'An emotional novel with lyrical touches' Sunday Times
'Beautifully plotted and breathtakingly accomplished' Daily Express
'An absorbing perceptive and moving tale' Daily Mail
'A powerful saga' Good Housekeeping
'An epic of discovery and deception' She
'A page-turner' Red
Kim Edwards is the author of the bestselling The Memory Keeper's Daughter and a collection of short stories The Secrets of a Fire King. Her honours include the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award as well as the Kentucky Literary Award a National Magazine Award and a grant from the NEA.She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
392
Release Date:
2012-02-16
Publication Date:
2012-02-16
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0670920258
ISBN13:
9780670920259
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Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
466 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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