A House of Light
By (Author) Candida Clark
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
13th February 2005
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
256
Width 161mm, Height 27mm, Spine 240mm
530g
A young photographer returns to her family house after a shocking incident: her flat and its contents have been destroyed in a fire.
However, the peace and distraction she had hoped for prove hard to find. Her presence is required at her father s second wedding, and the assembling guests have secrets of their own: secrets which cast a new and terrible light not only on recent events, but on her family s history, their beautiful old house and all that she held dear.Praise for Candida Clark's previous novels: 'A treat to be lingered over...[an] intense, and profound, pleasure' - Observer
I don't think I've ever read a better representation of...romantic love I wish I could do that...superb ' - Tim Pears Hauntingly beautiful [Candida Clark has] achieved something quite extraordinary a poetical thriller and what an ending - Mavis CheekCandida Clark was born in 1970. She has written film-scripts, short stories and journalism, and reviews regularly for various newspapers. A House of Light is her fifth novel.