Mari Strachan and her husband live in the hills of Ceredigion, Wales. The Earth Hums in B Flat is her first book, and she maintains a website at www.maristrachan.info.
The Earth Hums in B Flat
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ISBN-13:
9780802197672
- Publisher: Canongate U.S.
- Publication date: 06/16/2009
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 336
- File size: 3 MB
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"Has our family got secrets?"
"Every Family has, Gwenni. Big secrets, small secrets, silly secrets, bad things we want to hide..."
Young Gwenni Morgan has a gift. She can fly in her sleep. She's also fond of strawberry whip, detective stories and asking difficult questions. When a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, she resolves to uncover the secret of his disappearance and return him to his children. She truthfully records what she sees and hears: but are her deductions correct? What is the real truth? And what will be the consequences - for Gwenni, her family and her community - of finding it out?
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A fondness for unorthodoxy gives [Strachan's] girl-growing-up story its unique flavour . . . A warm and touching, but blessedly unsentimental, novel.Independent on Sunday - Lesley McDowell
I loved this debut, which manages to give a young girl's narrative an authentically quirky aspect, without ever resorting to cutesiness or cosiness . . . Strachan eschews whimsy for reality in a beautifully written story about growing up.author of What Was Lost Catherine O'Flynn
The Earth Hums in B Flat is a richly evocative, warm but unsentimental tale of a child detective struggling to piece together clues about the lives around her ... extremely compelling. I loved this novel.Independent - Boyd Tonkin
At a time when many panic-stricken publishers want their debut novelists to resemble junior celebs fresh out of stage school, Mari Strachan - and Canongate - are proving that the words still matter most. ... Strachan has a voice and a vision all her own.Marie Claire - Eithne Farry
Strachan's prose is pitch perfect. A gorgeous debut.