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Bridge of Clay

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‘Achingly moving, delightfully funny, and thoroughly uplifting.’ M L STEDMAN, author of THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS‘This book BLEW ME AWAY' JODI PICOULT ‘Rowdy and joyous, with flashes of wit and insight, and ultimately moving’ TIMES ___ Our mother was dead.

Our father had fledFive Dunbar brothers are living – fighting, loving, grieving – in the perfect chaos of a house without grown-ups.

This is a family rocked by tragedy and long buried secrets.

To understand his family’s story, Matthew Dunbar must travel to find three things.

A lost typewriter -- A dead dog -- The bones of the snake that killed it. He will learn of a mother who crosses continents for a new home; of a father searching for love in the keys of an old piano; and, finally, of a brother named Clay, who will make the most challenging journey of them all, and change their lives for ever. ___Readers love Bridge of Clay:***** ‘Page upon glorious page left my heart bruised, but gratefully beating’***** ‘A book rarely touches me so emotionally’***** ‘Original, compelling and richly resonant’ 'One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time' WASHINGTON POST'This book blew me away' JODI PICOULT'Devastating, demanding, deeply moving' WALL STREET JOURNAL'Moving and epic' STYLIST

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Black Swan
0552774766 / 9780552774765
Paperback / softback
823.92
30/05/2019
United Kingdom
English
General
581 pages
20 cm
Quiz No: 235981, Points 19.00, Book Level 5.30,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2018.