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Lucy Wood is the author of the critically acclaimed collection of short stories Diving Belles and Other Stories. She has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and was a runner-up in the BBC National Short Story Award. She has also been awarded a Somerset Maugham Award. Lucy Wood has a master's degree in creative writing from Exeter University. She lives in Devon.
Lucy Wood is the author of a critically acclaimed collection of short stories based on Cornish folklore Diving Belles. She has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and was a runner-up in the BBC National Short Story Award. She has also been awarded the Holyer an Gof Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. Lucy Wood has a Master's degree in creative writing from Exeter University. She lives in Devon.
Weathering
by Lucy Wood
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- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
- Publication date: 01/19/2016
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
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- Pages: 304
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Pearl doesn't know how she's ended up in the river--the same messy, cacophonous river in the same rain-soaked valley she'd been stuck in for years. But here her spirit swirls and stays . . . Ada, Pearl's daughter, doesn't know how she's ended up back in the house she left thirteen years ago--with no heating apart from a fire she can't light, no way of getting around apart from an old car she's scared to drive, and no company apart from her own young daughter, Pepper. She wants to clear out Pearl's house so she can leave and not look back. Pepper has grown used to following her restless mother from place to place, but this house, with its faded photographs, its boxes of cameras and its stuffed jackdaw, is something new. Fascinated by the scattering of people she meets, by the river that unfurls through the valley, and by the strange old woman who sits on the bank with her feet in the cold, coppery water, Pepper doesn't know why anyone would ever want to leave.
As the first frosts of autumn herald the coming of a long winter and Pepper and Ada find themselves entangled with the life of the valley, with new companions who won't be closed out, each will discover the ways that places can take root inside us, bind us together, and become us.
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The New York Times Book Review - Andrew Sean Greer
…captivating…Like Colm Toibin's Brooklyn and Nora Webster, Wood's novel has no burning secrets or sudden deaths; instead, it deploys a sequence of small gestures…with such sleight-of-hand that the reader never guesses whether joy, injury or humiliation is ahead—much like life. These scenes are pinned to the pages by Wood's extraordinary writing, the finest language and imagery I've come across in a very long time. Precise, unindulgent, fresh and honest, every page is a celebration…From the Publisher
"Extraordinary writing, the finest language and imagery I’ve come across in a very long time. Precise, unindulgent, fresh and honest, every page is a celebration." —New York Times Book Review"Sensory, haunting and somewhat literally haunted, this novel tackles the big subjects—belonging, mortality, love—with quiet grace and intimate focus . . . True vitality lies beneath the surface of Wood's exquisite and poetic writing . . . A luminous modern fairy tale." —starred review, Kirkus Reviews
"Marvelous . . . I could tell you this novel is about the portrait of an artist as a young girl. Or the thorny but loving relationship between mothers and daughters. Or how we discover ever more of our parents in ourselves as we age. Not yet 30, Wood handles all of these themes with remarkable insight, empathy and grace." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"One of Wood’s great strengths is the ability to fully inhabit her characters’ consciousness. She skilfully modifies her prose as she moves from one mind to another, leavening her vividly descriptive passages with snippets of speech or thought, wittily profane and colloquial . . . Pepper is a glorious child in the tradition of Harper Lee’s Scout and Donna Tartt’s Harriet." —The Guardian
"Recalls Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping . . . Wood is a creator of worlds. This sodden river valley is one to savour." —The Daily Telegraph
"Wood beautifully renders a landscape by turns rain-soaked and snow-laden . . . The author has a gift for capturing how humans are bound to and moulded by places." —The Sunday Times
"Lucy Wood is a sorceress. These stories unfold in a dreamy marine light, one that reveals the miraculous in the everyday. It is guaranteed to enrapture a reader, and you'll want to come up slowly from its depths." —Karen Russell on DIVING BELLES
Kirkus Reviews
★ 2015-09-03Sensory, haunting, and somewhat literally haunted, this novel tackles the big subjects—belonging, mortality, love—with quiet grace and intimate focus.Wood's (Diving Belles, 2012) novel is, on the surface, about three generations of women and their search for home. Ada, who has never settled in one place for long, returns to the house of her childhood to cast her mother Pearl's ashes in the river. Accompanied by her fey 6-year-old daughter, Pepper, she finds herself confronted by memories of her mother (as well as her ghost), which unexpectedly lead to new beginnings. Written from the points of view of all three female characters, the novel explores quintessential questions of relationship, growing up, and survival. As in the river that rages through the story, though, the true vitality lies beneath the surface of Wood's exquisite and poetic writing. While there isn't much action, the prose—sometimes delicate and precise, sometimes rich and layered—sweeps the reader inexorably on. Wood makes liberal use of descriptive language: "The last few shots showed the afternoon seeping away; the sky turning the dark blue of costly ink. A bright leaf like a star, a bedraggled feather." The careful accumulation of detail about the ramshackle house, its lonely inhabitants, and the fierce river creates an emotional connection that is grounded, rather than in pathos, in the beauty of the world, moment by moment, and how that beauty sustains us, even when we feel lost. The setting is both specific and timeless, and the characters are flawed in universal ways, making them easy to identify with despite their isolation and oddness. The ruminations on mortality and redemption, not grandiose but simply thoughtful, make the memory of the novel linger long after reading. A luminous modern fairy tale.