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the heart is a burial ground
[Paperback - 2018]
tamara colchester
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Scribner Uk | ISBN: 9781471165726 | Pages: 368
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There is an addictive pungency to this exotic tale of lives lived loudly Sunday Times
The remarkable life of Caresse Crosby, now retold by her great-granddaughter Observer
A vivid and inventive debut novel about four generations of women in a family, their past and their legacy, which evokes the work of Kate Atkinson, Tessa Hadley and Virginia Baily.

I will describe it as best I can. This is their story. Or perhaps just mine. Let us begin, again . . .

On a brisk day in 1970, a daughter arrives at her mother s home to take care of her as she nears the end of her life. Home is the sprawling Italian castle of Roccasinibalda, and Diana s mother is the legendary Caresse Crosby, one half of literature s most scandalous couple in 1920s Paris, widow of Harry Crosby, the American heir, poet and publisher who epitomised the Lost Generation .

But it was not only Harry who was lost. Their incendiary love story concealed a darkness that marked mercurial Diana and still burns through the generations: through Diana s troubled daughters Elena and Leonie, and Elena s young children.

Moving between the decades, between France, Italy and the Channel Islands, Tamara Colchester s debut novel is an unforgettably powerful portrait of a line of extraordinary women, and the inheritance they give their daughters.

Sensual, evocative and rich with observational truth, this is a vivid and intricate portrait of three extraordinary women Jeremy Page, author of Salt

Evocative Good Housekeeping

This is a bold, striking and confident novel filled with vivid, sometimes shocking, scenes. It spans decades, generations and continents without ever feeling disjointed. This is a stunning introduction to an intriguing new voice in British fiction, who does real justice to her prodigious forebear Netgalley reviewer

About the Author

Tamara Colchester is a descendant of Caresse Crosby and was inspired by her family history to write this exceptional work of fiction, her debut novel. Tamara is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in various publications, including AnOther Magazine. She lives in West Sussex.

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