Finding Helen Paperback / softback
by Colin Greenland
Paperback / softback
Description
In his late 40s, in a career and a marriage that have each lost their lustre, Chris Gale is someone to whom life never quite kept its promise.
One morning, as he is leaving for work, he hears a song on the radio: a song that transports him back to an altogether better, happier time - the early 1970s, when youth, idealism and music, especially the music of singer-songwriter Helen Leonard, might have chnaged the world.
Haunted by a raw sense of loss and a growing resentment at how life has turned out, Chris - goaded on by the mysterious, elusive apparition of the 'Beagle Man' - begins a physical, spiritual and emotional quest.
Revisiting old haunts and old memories, he searches for an answer to a question that has haunted him, unanswered, for nearly 30 years: what did Fate hold in store for the woman he devoted himself to so entirely all those years ago - the maddening, mercurial, mischievous Helen Leonard... Witty, elegiac, affecting and, as the narrative unrolls, increasingly disturbing, FINDING HELEN is a novel about the consequences of loss - of innocence, idealism and youth, a novel about memory and obsession, betrayal and forgiveness and what might lie beyond the veil...
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:03/03/2003
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- ISBN:9780552770804
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:03/03/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780552770804