- Published: 07/04/2011
- ISBN: 9781846273483
- Granta Books
- 304 pages
The Proof of Love
Catherine Hall
By the time the summer holidays begin, Spencer Little is keen to put the events of the past term at Cambridge behind him and a remote village in the Lake District seems to offer the perfect escape. But it’s not so easy to remain anonymous in a small community and, after striking up a friendship with ten year old Alice, Spencer also finds himself being drawn into other people’s lives. As the summer heatwave intensifies and a web of complicity tightens around him, Spencer realizes that he will eventually be forced to choose between loyalty and truth, between logic and passion.
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Sense of place is superbly rendered. There are shades of Wordsworth in this atmospheric Lakeland tale.
Stevie Davies, Guardian
This exceptional novel is a very subtly clever book... rare and wonderful. I loved it. 10/10.
Savage Reads blog
Atmospheric, accomplished and ultimately very moving.
Diva
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Days Of Grace
Catherine Hall
My memories of Grace never added up to how she really was. She was always impossible to pin down, dancing just out of my reach, exactly as she did when she was alive.
Nora was a girl of twelve when the war broke out and she was forced to join the train-loads of evacuees leaving London’s East End for rural Kent. Her surrogate family, the Rivers, are unlike anyone she has met before and she soon comes to love her new life with them, and in particular with twelve-year-old Grace. Over the next few years, as the dogfights rage ever more fiercely over head and it becomes clear that the Rivers marriage contains deep and irreparable cracks, Nora and Grace grow as close as sisters – though, to Nora’s confusion, even this is not quite as close as she would like …What happened next is a secret that will gnaw away at Nora for the rest of her life – a secret that she can only begin to tell when she is certain that she is approaching the end.
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The Proof of Love
Catherine Hall
The Proof of Love won the Green Carnation Prize in 2011.
