A Child from the Wishing Well reflects the author's fascination with studies of dysfunctional characters in family life or other relationships who may nevertheless find that clouds can, ultimately, have a silver lining. If life dips and threatens to overwhelm, however dire, it really is still better to try and fail and, if necessary 'keep' trying and, to an extent, keep failing, than not to try at all; so that if the end to a novel is not happy - in the sentimental sense - the book judged as a whole should be affirmative of life, uplifting.
Gerard's wish is to break out of paranoia, discover daughter Rosie's love. Is the eerie music tutor Ruth's foul-smelling well a place where wishes happen? Ashamed he cannot relate to his daughter, Rosie, Gerard accompanies and stays with her for violin lessons at the home of tutor, Ruth Stein.
Ruth, fascinating him for her musical sensitivity, becomes a confidante. Against his better judgement and his wife's reservations - the paranoid, Gerard, can only cling to believing the tutor can bring him closer to Rosie.
Soon, he must wrestle with his suspicions again, for Ruth mothers Rosie, almost smothers...
Reaching out to a broken doll, propped in the darkness at the bottom of Ruth's garden well, Gerard wants to believe that what he touches and smells is just the decay of sacks enfolding a doll; the closest to a child that the lonely old spinster could cling. Investigating, Gerard's fears for Rosie's safety begin to mount.
Rosie draws closer to her father, notices his new concern but, if she is in danger, can he save her and can Gerard still triumph over the emotional void of paranoia; feel, accept, he and Rosie could share the love of which others speak?
Shortlisted for the Harper Collins (Authonomy) Gold Star Award, May 2010
Sunday Times Bestselling author, Barbara Erskine, comments in the Preface :
"Beautifully observed characters, atmospheric, intriguing."
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Título : A Child from the Wishing Well
EAN : 9780954696368
Editorial : Raymond Nickford
Fecha de publicación
: 1/9/11
Formato : ePub
Tamaño del archivo : 394.07 kb
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