Persistent Rumours
by Lee Langley
A childhood mystery—the stuff of nightmares—has haunted James Oakley
all his life: the disappearance and death of his mother long ago in
India. In a last attempt to unlock the secret of the past, James
returns to the place of his birth, the Andaman Islands 700 miles off
the coast of India, seeking traces of his mother in a place of
treacherous seas and hurricanes.
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Lee Langley
Author's Bio:Lee Langley was born in Calcutta and travelled widely in India as a
child. She has written six novels, poetry, a stage play, arts and
travel journalism, and film and television
screenplays, including a highly praised dramatisation of Graham
Greene's The Tenth Man. She is married and lives in Richmond-upon-Thames, England.
Awards:Writers' Guild/Macallan Award for Best Novel of 1992
Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Novel for the Eurasia Region
Shortlisted for the Hawthornden Prize Quotes:“This strange, supple book catches you from its first pages and draws you steadily along. . . . [Persistent Rumours]
radiates a startling intelligence, not only about the elusive quality
of history and memory but about the often unbridgable gaps between
women and men.”—Washington Post Book World
“The
closest thing to a faultless novel I have read for years. . . . With her
sensuous, subtle writing Lee Langley shows how the effort to understand
the past is never wasted.”—Daily Mail
“Multilayered and ambitious. . . . Evokes a shimmering vision of the past and its relation to the present.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The solution, at the end of an exciting and provocative book with
ravishing descriptions of rainforests and reefs, is as astonishing as
any author could aim at.”—Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph
"Beautifully written. . . . Langley
has a very definite and original voice of her own, with the power to
portray a real sense of deeper truths about humanity within the context
of a gripping and moving story."— Sunday Times
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Persistent Rumours
A childhood mystery—the stuff of nightmares—has haunted James Oakley
all his life: the disappearance and death of his mother long ago in
India. In a last attempt to unlock the secret of the past, James
returns to the place of his birth, the Andaman Islands 700 miles off
the coast of India, seeking traces of his mother in a place of
treacherous seas and hurricanes. more...
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