'Pride and Prejudice, Scandinavian style' Sunday Express _____ 'My name is Esther Fisher and I'm about to walk out on the only man I've ever loved...' Esther has been angry all her life - angry with her impossible parents, and at a world that just won't play by the rules. Now working as a tabloid journalist, she takes up the fight once more - this time on behalf of a couple who are being evicted from their home to make room for an opera house. The architect on the project is Swedish-born Linus, a successful, yet dreamy man ...
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'Pride and Prejudice, Scandinavian style' Sunday Express _____ 'My name is Esther Fisher and I'm about to walk out on the only man I've ever loved...' Esther has been angry all her life - angry with her impossible parents, and at a world that just won't play by the rules. Now working as a tabloid journalist, she takes up the fight once more - this time on behalf of a couple who are being evicted from their home to make room for an opera house. The architect on the project is Swedish-born Linus, a successful, yet dreamy man who is also trying to put his childhood anxieties behind him. When Esther's professional integrity comes head to head with her growing friendship with Linus she begins to wonder if ultimately this is a fight with no winners... _____ 'A warm, funny novel' Daily Mail 'Deliciously descriptive ... beneath its charm lie serious truths' She 'Dreamy yet dextrous' Observer
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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (pages edges faintly stained-otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 376 (no inscriptions).
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Near fine in Near fine jacket. Near fine condition. Orion, 1999. First UK edition-first printing. Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine, small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(very small tear, a couple of nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with light shelf wear on the outer edges, pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the back of the Dj cover.376pp. Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: This tale interweaves the lives of two unusual children: Esther, whose father walked out of her London home without a word; and Linus, bullied by his father, spoiled by his adoring but eccentric uncles and aunts, and growing up in Stockholm, longing to be an architect. n nFrom the Publisher nRecent reviews for Frozen Music n'Cobbold's first-person novel takes her heroine, Esther, from lonely childhood to life in her mid-thirties as a magazine journalist. Her story is paralleled by that of Linus, a Swedish boy, as both are idealists and outsiders, you suspect from the start that they will end up together. Esther is a woman who thinks she knows the rules, until a series of events forces her to see cause and effect in every gesture, and paralyses her with indecision; Linus is a man with a clear, bright dream, which Esther nearly destroys.
Edition:
First UK paperback edition-first printing
Publisher:
Orion
Published:
1999
Alibris ID:
10960752404
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Near fine. Near fine condition. Orion, 1999. First UK paperback edition-first printing. Large format paperback(two small nicks, scratch and crease on the edges of the cover and spine) in near fine condition. The book is new with a couple of ink marks and small nick on the outer edges, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first page of the book, small nick on the edge of the pages.376pp. This is another paragraph Synopsis: A novel about childhood, friendship, love and the exorcising of family ghosts. Esther and Linus emerge from their distinctly peculiar childhood's to become friends, then adversaries, and finally lovers, fatally divided not only by a cause on which neither will give way, but also by a complex set of obsessions, old family secrets, and other lovers.
Publisher:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published:
2000
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17221253476
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Good. All orders are dispatched within 1 working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we are dedicated to recycling unwanted books on behalf of a number of UK charities who benefit from added revenue through the sale of their books plus huge savings in waste disposal. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
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Very good. All orders are dispatched within 1 working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we are dedicated to recycling unwanted books on behalf of a number of UK charities who benefit from added revenue through the sale of their books plus huge savings in waste disposal. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
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Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published:
2000
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English
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18051206294
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Very good. All orders are dispatched within 1 working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we are dedicated to recycling unwanted books on behalf of a number of UK charities who benefit from added revenue through the sale of their books plus huge savings in waste disposal. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
Publisher:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published:
06/15/2000
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English
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18022596068
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