Eileen Merriman

Moonlight Sonata (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The writing has something of both the density and the understatement of poetry, with close attention to things happening just out of sight, beneath the surface of experience. Old memories share space with new excitements in a carefully crafted sub-text, leaving the merest sign that they are there. . . . The sea-quixotic and dangerous yet familiar enough to dispel anxiety-is the perfect metaphor for a world where uncertainty is normal, in both present and past. . . . Merriman has taken the star-crossed lovers theme and doubled it, over two generations, using nature as a shifting complex of metaphors for emotional states, as Mansfield did, and Dickens before her. She has a gift for character drawing and, even more, for landscape painting. What seems 'utterly real' is, of course, a very clever web of fabrication that draws us into conundrums we might never have been asked to contemplate, but gives us enough faith in people's love for one another to find a way through.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780143773467
• Artikelnr.: 61983801

Autorenporträt

Eileen Merriman's first young adult novel, Pieces of You, was published in 2017, and was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and a Storylines Notable Book. Since then, a stream of novels for adults and young adults have followed. She has received huge critical praise, with one reviewer saying: 'Merriman is an instinctive storyteller with an innate sense of timing.' In addition to being a regular finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Merriman was a finalist in the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel and Moonlight Sonata was longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Editions of some of her young adult novels have been released in Germany, Turkey and the UK and three have been optioned for film or TV, including the Black Spiral Trilogy. In 2024, Merriman's compelling Catch a Falling Star, which depicts a 15-year-old spiralling into a mental health crisis, won both the New Zealand Book Awards Young Adult Fiction Award and NZ Booklovers' Best Young Adult Book. Her other awards include runner-up in the 2018 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and third in the same award for three consecutive years previously. She works as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital.