Ruth Thomas

The Home Corner

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nineteen-year-old Luisa McKenzie has failed her Scottish Highers and finds herself back at primary school - working as a teaching assistant, a role she never envisaged or wanted.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber / Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 123mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9780571230624
• ISBN-10: 0571230628
• Artikelnr.: 39759620

Autorenporträt

Thomas, Ruth§Ruth Thomas is a novelist and short-story writer. Her first story collection was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys and the Saltire Society First Book Awards, and her second received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Her first novel Things to Make and Mend received a Good Housekeeping Book Award. The Home Corner is her second novel. Ruth was born in Kent and now lives in Edinburgh with her husband and three children. She is currently a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow.

Rezensionen

Ruth Thomas is a brilliant chronicler and observer of the hum-drumness of everyday life and this is a wonderfully funny and poignant story about how unsettling the transition from childhood to adulthood can be. Carla McKay Daily Mail