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Michaels, Anne, 1958-

Held / Anne Michaels. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. - 220 pages ; 22 cm.

1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls-a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts with messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations of connections and consequences that ignite and re-ignite as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, and transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. Held is affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom, and compassion, a novel by a writer at the height of her powers.

ISBN: 9781526662538 1526662531 9781526659118 1526659115

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC3G9317 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 021199374 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
War--Psychological aspects --Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Love--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
Love--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR9199.3.M453 / H45 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 813.54 813.6