![]() ![]() A beautifully paced, told with literary skill, but always compelling novel from Hazel Manuel, author of Kanyakumari and The Geranium Woman. In a narrative that moves between caustic observation and the richly sensual, this is a novel that challenges many of our assumptions about modern life and celebrates the unconventional. ![]() Will her encounters with Clotilde encourage her to admit a truth she has avoided for years? And what are the consequences for Sian if she does? And Sian takes with her a secret she has told no-one - not even her psychiatrist. Sanjida Kay, Bone by Bone, My Mother’s Secret. Tessa Hadley, Everything Will Be Alright, Accidents In The Home, Clever Girl. The final winner of our giveaway of Hazel Manuels Undressing Stone is Angela Rose Thanks to Hazel for donating the books and congratulations to all three winners - and thanks to everyone else who. Emma Geen, The Many Selves of Katherine North. There she meets Clotilde - a strange and enigmatic sculptor who likes to work in the nude. Helen Dunmore, Birdcage Walk, Burning Bright. ![]() Undressing Stone is a mysterious tale flirting with the gothic as it interweaves Sian's conversations with her psychiatrist with her newly reclusive life in France. Introverted and emotionally aloof, Sian can't remember what her ex-husband had been talking about, but not wanting to do as he said, she did exactly what he'd cautioned against instead.įrom Cardiff to Saint Vay - a four-house hamlet tucked away in a forgotten corner of ancient France - Sian gives up her stable home and job in Wales to begin a new life in a borrowed cottage, because the internet told her to. ![]()
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