TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michaels, Anne,
TI  - Held
SN  - 9781526662538
AV  - PR9199.3.M453 H45 2023
U1  - 813.54 23/eng/20231224
PY  - 2023///.
CY  - London : 
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing, 
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - War
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Families
KW  - Love
KW  - Grief
KW  - Soldiers
N2  - 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
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