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The Beacon (2009)

by Susan Hill(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0701183403 (ISBN13: 9780701183400)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Chatto & Windus

review 1: I love Susan Hill and this is probably a bit harsh could push to 2.5. Still irks me to pay £7.99 for such a slim book. Anyway. The book. As in A Kind Man she writes about death. She does it well but just not a cheerful read. The whole book just felt so sad. A story about a family but not a close family. Troubled relationships culminating in Frank causing serious upset by writing about his childhood. The impact of this on all of them including him is huge. Not top of my list!
review 2: A short novel and a fairly quick read, this novel centres on a family who live in an isolated farmhouse in the North of England. As the four children grow up and leave home, only one is left to tend the widowed mother. Then their world is shattered when one of the sons writes ... morea memoir claiming that he was abused and neglected by his parents and siblings as a child, none of which is true. This has a devastating effect on the siblings as friends and neighbours now regard them with suspicion. It is as though Frank McCourt, or Jeannette Walls were suddenly found to have written fiction about their early lives. Ms Hill explores the different nature of the siblings and the difficult relationship with the elderly mother, and the impact on all the family members of the memoir's publication. less

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