The Lake of Dreams
By (Author) Kim Edwards
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
28th November 2011
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
815.1
Paperback
400
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
277g
A stunning paperback package for Kim Edwards's second novel to captivate the 1 million readers who fell in love with The Memory Keeper's Daughter The darkest secrets are the ones we hide from ourselves... Ten years ago, traumatized by her father's death, Lucy left her home and her country. Now, she returns to her family's rambling lakeside home to lay old ghosts to rest. However, sleepless one night, she makes a momentous discovery. Locked in a moonlit window seat is a collection of family heirlooms - objects whose secrets no one was ever supposed to find. Piecing together her family's true history, she realises that the story she has always been told was a fiction. And the more she uncovers, the more Lucy comes to question her own life choices - including why it is that her first lover, Keegan Fall, has never left her heart . . . Mesmerizing and haunting, The Lake of Dreams is a startling story of family secrets and lies, lost love and redemption, and of the many pieces and puzzles that make up a life.
An absorbing, perceptive and moving tale that fans of The Memory Keeper's Daughter will lap up * Daily Mail *
Beautifully plotted and breathtakingly accomplished * Daily Express *
An emotional novel with lyrical touches * Sunday Times *
A powerful saga * Good Housekeeping *
An epic of discovery and deception * She *
A page-turner * Red *
Kim Edwards is the author of the The Memory Keeper's Daughter and a collection of short stories, The Secrets of a Fire King. Her honors include the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award, as well as the Kentucky Literary Award, a National Magazine Award, and a grant from the NEA.She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.