Bibliograph

A country of eternal light, Paul Dalgarno

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A country of eternal light, Paul Dalgarno

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A country of eternal light

Responsibility statement

Paul Dalgarno

Summary

A woman who has recently died returns, in invisible spirit form, to visit her twin daughters in Spain and Australia. Spanning more than seventy-five years, from 1945 to 2021, A Country of Eternal Light follows Margaret as she flits from wartime Germany to Thatcher's Britain to modern-day Scotland, Australia and Spain, ruminating on everything from the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster and Australia's Black Summer bushfires to Mary Queen of Scots' beheading, the death of Princess Diana and in-vitro fertilisation. But why is facing up to what's happened in one's past as hard as, if not harder than, blocking it out completely? A poignant novel about complicated grief and how we remain wanted by our loved ones, dead or alive

Target audience

adult

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