Resurrecting Salvador
By (Author) Jeremy Dronfield
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Feature
22nd June 1999
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
823.914
400
Width 154mm, Height 35mm, Spine 233mm
659g
Jeremy Dronfield s second dazzling psychological thriller explores the roots of love, madness and obsession through the story of a tormented musical genius and the bizarre aristocratic family that made him. Set in an eerie ruined chateau in the south of France and its ghostly simulacrum on the wastes of Dartmoor, this is a Gothic tale for the 1990s, a modern-day story of the living, the dead, and those in-between...
Dronfield's suspenseful and incisive work brilliantly creates the atmosphere of a ruined chateau resurrected on the wastes of Dartmoor - THE TIMES
It works well and the book contains some fantastic flourishes of prose...RESURRECTING SALVADOR is a long, excellent book in which characters, scenes and new thoughts come alive in the hands of a gifted and interesting writer - EXPRESSDronfield's skill as a writer is in no doubt... RESURRECTING SALVADOR is an ambitious novel that succeeds very well, and Dronfield a writer to watch - CRIME TIMEJeremy Dronfield was born in 1965 and grew up in South Wales. He was educated at the universities of Southampton and Cambridge, where he took degrees in Archeology.