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Being Emily
Anne Donovan
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Description for Being Emily
Paperback. A lyrical coming-of-age narrative, its people drawn with love in that singing Glasgow voice. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204. 320 pages. A lyrical coming-of-age narrative, its people drawn with love in that singing Glasgow voice. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight: 204.
Things are never dull in the O'Connell family. Still, Fiona, squeezed between her quiet brother and her mischievous line-dancing twin sisters, thinks life in their tenement flat is far less interesting than Emily Bronte's.
But tragedy is not confined to Victorian novels. And life for Fiona in this happy domestic setup is about to change forever. Following the devastating events of a single day, her family can never be the same. But perhaps, new relationships will develop - built on a solid foundation of love.
Moving, funny and ultimately heart-warming, Being Emily is a wonderful novel about one young girl trying to find her place in the world amid the turmoil that only your own family can create.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847671257
SKU
V9781847671257
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-6
About Anne Donovan
Anne Donovan is the author of the prize-winning novel Buddha Da and the short-story collection, Hieroglyphics. Buddha Da was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It received a Scottish Arts Council Award and won the Le Prince Maurice Award in Mauritius in 2004. She has also written for radio and the stage and has been working on the screenplay for the film of Buddha Da. She lives in Glasgow.
Reviews for Being Emily
A tender, lyrical coming-of-age narrative, its people drawn with love in that singing Glasgow voice that is Donovan's signature
Stevie Davies
Guardian
An endearing coming-of-age novel, provoking laughter and sadness in equal measure.
Leanne Kolirin
Mslexia
Donovan's novel is an accomplished family drama which is quirky and endearing. Don't wait until your next life to read it.
SUNDAY HERALD
Her deliciously corkscrewed tale flows with the sap of everyday life.
SUNDAY TIMES
Wonderfully fresh and moving.
Kate Saunders
The Times
Being Emily is so genuinely good-hearted, it's easy to warm to it. Rarely is Glasgow depicted so affectionately and if the family at the centre of the book is dysfunctional, there's no wallowing in misery for misery's sake.
The Arts
Sunday Herald
Donovan writes, in Glaswegian dialect, with an idiosyncratic and beguiling prose style that was so powerful in her debut novel, Buddha Da...She handles characters and plot with both toughness and tenderness, and depicts the pains and pleasures borne by the developing female artist.
Anita Sethi
Independent on Sunday
She handles characters and plot with both toughness and tenderness, and depitcs the pains and pleasures borne by the developing borne by the developing female artist.
Independent on Sunday
Donovan writes with bittersweet amplomb.
The Times
Stevie Davies
Guardian
An endearing coming-of-age novel, provoking laughter and sadness in equal measure.
Leanne Kolirin
Mslexia
Donovan's novel is an accomplished family drama which is quirky and endearing. Don't wait until your next life to read it.
SUNDAY HERALD
Her deliciously corkscrewed tale flows with the sap of everyday life.
SUNDAY TIMES
Wonderfully fresh and moving.
Kate Saunders
The Times
Being Emily is so genuinely good-hearted, it's easy to warm to it. Rarely is Glasgow depicted so affectionately and if the family at the centre of the book is dysfunctional, there's no wallowing in misery for misery's sake.
The Arts
Sunday Herald
Donovan writes, in Glaswegian dialect, with an idiosyncratic and beguiling prose style that was so powerful in her debut novel, Buddha Da...She handles characters and plot with both toughness and tenderness, and depicts the pains and pleasures borne by the developing female artist.
Anita Sethi
Independent on Sunday
She handles characters and plot with both toughness and tenderness, and depitcs the pains and pleasures borne by the developing borne by the developing female artist.
Independent on Sunday
Donovan writes with bittersweet amplomb.
The Times