Author: WAGNER, ERICA
Title: Seizure
Description: Faber & Faber, UK, 2007. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9780571227594 240 pages. Available Now. Book Description: Janet grew up with her father; her mother, she was always told, died when she was three. Her father's stories were of her mother's beauty, their early love - tales stopping short of tragedy. But now, living an ocean away from her childhood home, she unexpectedly inherits a house. The house had belonged to her mother, who in fact lived long into Janet's adulthood. In a state of shock she travels north with the key: and finds an old stone cottage at the sea's edge. She presumes it will be empty. It is not. : Tom was raised by his mother, travelling from one place to another, never settling, his only stability the stories she told him - stories of shapeshifters, danger, impossible love. Now he hides away in an old stone cottage at the sea's edge, waiting for the woman he knows will come. : Here is a world of truth and terror, where lives and stories become so interwoven that in the end, all distinctions are lost. Janet and Tom are possessed by their stories: can they possess each other, too? : Erica Wagner's charged prose pulses with an intensity that will leave the reader breathless. This long-awaited first novel will establish her as one of the most powerful literary voices of her generation. : Review: 'A complex and intelligent book ... Wagner has created something genuinely visceral.' -- Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times: 'A dark and twisted tale woven out of the blackest, most fobidding myths and fairy tales ... chilling and unsettling.': -- Sunday Business Post: 'An exceptional first novel ... This book should win prizes ... [Wagner] entertains - a writer incapable, it seems, of being drab.' -- Tom Adair, Scotsman: 'As the tension in Janet's relationship with her brother develops, the reader feels seized too ... Written with impressive conviction and exerts real power.' -- Sarah Bakewell, TLS: 'Momentum and intensity build so that the unnerving denouement, when it comes, seems almost inevitable ... A searing debut novel.' : -- Irish Times: 'The almost gothic frisson it imparts to the reader is acheived by the very careful drip-dripping of taboos.' -- Guardian: 'The characters are finely wrought ... [in] this strange tale of spiritual homecoming.' -- Independent on Sunday: 'Wagner's intelligent, lyrical prose ... draws the reader into the predicament of her damaged protagonists as they hurtle towards a tragic discovery.' -- Sunday Times: 'If, like me, you enjoy a tale that gives you goosebumps, you'll love this ... Mysterious and lyrical, it's a must-read.' -- Viv Groskop, Eve Magazine: 'Poetic, passionate and poised in the hinterland between fantasy and real life ... A novel that combines suspense with the pleasure of good writing.' -- Pamela Norris, Literary Review : Book Description: Erica Wagner's Seizure is the eagerly awaited first novel by the Literary Editor of The Times. Size: 13.2 x 1.9 x 21.5 cm. 240 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Crime Fiction; Paperback; ISBN: 0571227597. ISBN/EAN: 9780571227594. Inventory No: F238-1241.

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