Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children's author and poet. She published twelve novels including Zennor in Darkness , which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She was posthumously awarded the...See more
Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children's author and poet. She published twelve novels including Zennor in Darkness , which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She was posthumously awarded the Costa 2017 prize for her poetry collection Inside the Wave. See less
Helen Dunmore's Featured Books
Helen Dunmore book reviews
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A Spell of Winter
A curate's egg, excellent in parts
This fin de siècle, first person, novel, is at its Austenesque heart a story of decay, hope and incestuous love.
Cathy lives in a large run down country house with her Grandfather, known locally as ... Read More
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Your Blue-Eyed Boy
graphic and haunting
I bought this book for little to no money at a used books store, after only having skimmed the text on the back of the book, thinking: " Well, this sounds alright..." I wasn't really expecting a ... Read More