Ebook {Epub PDF} Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

This item: Peculiar Ground: A Novel by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Hardcover $ Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Ships from and sold by DMK and Gagnon, Limited. Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money by /5(49).  · Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Political Book Award for Political Biography of the Year, Peculiar Ground, with its witches and aristocrats, its highly educated men, Brand: HarperCollins Publishers. The Wychwood of Lucy Hughes-Hallett's novel Peculiar Ground, an English estate built in the s, sets the stage for the personal intrigues of characters spanning several centuries and generations. Secluded from the rest of the public, the estate and its enclosed garden are also symbols of social divisions and how they often trap people.

The Wychwood of Lucy Hughes-Hallett's novel Peculiar Ground, an English estate built in the s, sets the stage for the personal intrigues of characters spanning several centuries and generations. Secluded from the rest of the public, the estate and its enclosed garden are also symbols of social divisions and how they often trap people. Lucy Hughes-Hallett's ambitious first novel ends in in the aftermath of that plague, and it, too, dances between past and present, history and modernity. Like those skeletons buried for centuries beneath Bishopsgate, it is rooted in the ground. Peculiar Ground does not confine itself to a single wall. Like Tom Stoppard's classic. "Peculiar Ground is so clever and beautifully written, it gripped me from start to end. I abandoned work and family to finish it." - Roddy Doyle "Lucy Hughes-Hallett's novel is immensely vivid, full of rich and deeply imagined life, and glowing with energy.

Peculiar Ground covers a lot of historical and emotional territory. The story begins in , when a wall is built to seal Wychwood and its estate away from the unrest caused by the plague and the British Civil Wars ; winds through the twentieth century with the rise of the Berlin Wall in and its fall in , and finally travels back to What a boon to write of a debut novelist aged Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a new and unusual talent to watch. Peculiar Ground is published by 4th Estate. Peculiar Groundby Lucy Hughes-HallettHarper, Lucy Hughes-Hallett comes to the world of fiction after writing nonfiction, including The Pike, a very good book about Italian writer and gold-plated weirdo Gabriele D'Annunzio. Her opulent new book Peculiar Ground, her debut work of fiction, is probably predictably steeped in history, split between two very different eras.