BREAKFAST AT THE HOTEL DÉJÀ VU
Bobby Clarke arrives at a hotel on the Mediterranean shore. He is a former MP, unseated by the expenses scandal, who is now spending time abroad to recover from a major illness. The other purpose of his stay is to write his memoirs in order to demonstrate that he was unfairly pilloried for ''a minor accounting error'', having valiantly served his country for 30 years. He settles into his new surroundings but it soon becomes clear that all is not as it seems. For a start Bobby seems to have no memory of the immediate past. Each time he sits down to continue his memoirs he finds only a blank page. Every morning as he comes downstairs the same scene replays itself in front of him: a young woman and her son pass him on the stairs. And what has become of his wife?
THEO
John Elliott is the recently appointed vicar of St Joseph''s - a dilapidated church with a congregation of 16 and a leaky roof. Having entered the Church more by default than through any great calling, he struggles to inject some life into his ailing parish. His wife Christine longs for them to escape the endless rounds of coffee mornings and cake sales. Then Theo, a child at her school, starts to exhibit strange marks on his hands and feet that vanish almost as soon as they have appeared. What has produced these marks - is it physical violence or something stranger? And why has the previous vicar of St Joseph''s ended up in a psychiatric hospital?
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Orion
ISBN: 9781780227429
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 208
Tiempo de lectura:
4h 15m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/10/2014
Año de edición: 2014
Plaza de edición: Reino Unido
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Escrito por Paul Torday
Paul Torday (1946). Va estudiar Literatura anglesa al Pembroke College dOxford. Ha passat la major part de la seva vida treballant en la indústria, però els darrers tres anys ha trobat temps per escriure. Viu a Northumberland, on sol dedicar-se a la pesca del salmó, i ha visitat el Pròxim Orient en diverses ocasions. Aquesta és la seva primera novel·la.