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020			_a9781526662538
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bANN/HE
100			_aAnne Michaels
245			_aHELD
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bBloomsburry _c2023/01/01
300			_g220
500			_a 1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. Held is a novel like no other, by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom and compassion. Families Fiction
650			_aFamilies Fiction
650			_aFamilles Romans, nouvelles, etc
650			_aGrief Fiction
650			_aLove Fiction
650			_aMan-woman relationships
650			_aChagrin Romans, nouvelles, etc
942			_cLEN
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999			_c193311 _d193311