Bøker av Rosalind Brackenbury

When the bones of a woman are dug up on a beach in Dorset whose are they? How do they connect with Nessa Halloran's present life as memories of her English post-war childhood emerge to haunt her?

Maria Jameson is having an affair?a passionate, lifechanging affair. She asks: Is it possible to love two men at once? Must this new romance mean an end to love with her husband? For answers, she reaches across the centuries to George Sand, the maverick French novelist who took many lovers. Immersing herself in the life of this revolutionary woman, Maria struggles with the choices women make and wonders if women in the nineteenth century might have been more free, in some ways, than their twenty-first-century counterparts. Here, Rosalind Brackenbury creates a beautiful portrait of the ways in which women are connected across history. Two narratives delicately intertwine?following George through her affair with Frederic Chopin, following Maria through her affair with an Irish professor?and bring us a novel that explores the personal and the historical, the demands of self and the mysteries of the heart. Sharply insightful, Becoming George Sand asks how we make our lives feel vibrant while still acknowledging the gifts of our pasts, and challenges our understanding of love in all its forms?sparkling and new, mature, rekindled, and renewed.

Reviewers have this to say about Rosalind Brackenbury's books:"I have been thrilled reading this book, from start to finish. The author has fine mind and fine writing style that is mesmerizing at times.""... literary in the best possible sense of the word.""... she is flawless.""... lyrical, introspective and intriguing."And this about Circus at the End of the World:"In less than 200 pages Brackenbury creates characters who depend on their strength and conviction to carry them through the dreary hardship that turn most people into whiners. But these characters don't whine; they win. And they juggle (literally and figuratively) to explain life to themselves. Brackenbury, who is a poet, uses the tightness and verbal tension of poetry to create vignettes of landscape, personal and natural, that will stay with the reader long after the book is done."- Quinn McDonald, QuinnCreative""The Circus At The End Of The World"" is about a boy's search for his mother, a woman's desire to explore the world and a man's longing for love. It begins and ends in Tasmania as the 20th century becomes the 21st and includes juggling, magic and teenage romance.