4 Novels by Helen Dunmore
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Overview: Helen Dunmore is a British poet, novelist and children’s writer. Educated at the University of York, she now lives in Bristol. She has won awards for her fiction and also for her poetry. Dunmore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Genre: Fiction l General Fiction/Classics l Historical Fiction
With Your Crooked Heart
With Your Crooked Heart introduces Louise, a tough and introspective Londoner trapped in a subtle battle between two brothers. Paul and Johnnie were born twelve years apart, in a one-bedroom flat in a dingy London suburb. Their ascent to money and power looks easy from a distance, but the seductive brothers burn those who get too close. When Paul marries Louise, Johnnie is part of the contract, and their daughter, Anna, is tangled in it from birth. Paul deals in the development of contaminated land; self-destructive Johnnie deals in crime. When Johnnie has to flee the country, Louise goes with him. Their trip sets in motion inevitabilities that have smoldered beneath the surface from the beginning, a dire and redemptive chain of events that devastates every branch of this crooked family tree. With Your Crooked Heart’s sensuous, daring prose brilliantly exhibits Dunmore’s "poet’s ear for language and photographer’s eye for images.
House of Orphans
Set in Finland in the year 1901: Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from the orphanage to work as housekeeper for Thomas, a widowed country doctor. Her challenging, independent, enigmatic presence disturbs Thomas as much as it fascinates him. Their relationship will shatter all the certainties of his life. Meanwhile, Eeva is drawn back to Helsinki, to the comrades of her childhood, and in particular to Lauri, the son of her father’s friend. It is a world full of danger. For this is Finland in political ferment – the power of the Russian Empire over its subject peoples is growing more oppressive, but resistance to the Tsar’s rule is growing too, both in Finland and in Russia. Some call such resistance terrorism; others call it a fight for freedom. Just as Helen Dunmore’s "The Siege" is a novel about how huge public events bear down on private lives, so "House of Orphans", while a spellbinding story of love and loneliness is also about the tension between reform and revolution, and a country emerging into Independence.
Zennor In Darkness
It is May 1917 and war overshadows spring in Zennor. The Cornish village is alive with talk of treachery, and no-one is immune. Not Clare Coyne, a young artist, nor her cousin John William, on leave from the trenches. And especially not D. H. Lawrence and his German wife, who find themselves the objects of the dangerous tide of gossip.
Mourning Ruby
About thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself. A child of no one and nowhere, she has created her own unorthodox but tender family. Then this hopeful life is dealt a blow that could shatter even the strongest of ties. Now, Rebecca must face the future by delving into her mysterious past.
Dunmore’s most ambitious work to date, Mourning Ruby is a meditation on memory and history-both personal and public. It’s an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and the transcendent power of storytelling itself
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