Natural flights of the human mind
By: Clare Morrall
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bath, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9781405613385; 9781405613392
Subjects: Alienation (Social psychology); Fiction; Neighbors
Description: Peter Straker lives in a disused lighthouse on the Devon coast, speaking to no one - except in his dreams, where he converses with some of the seventy-eight people he believes he killed twenty-four years ago. But Straker's solitude is about to be invaded. Imogen Doody, a school caretaker, inherits a run-down cottage in the nearby village. Straker finds himself helping her to repair it, but as the twenty-fifth anniversary of his crime approaches, other forces are gathering to disturb his precarious peace. Imbued with infectious warmth and wit, Clare Morrall's second novel testifies to the essential goodness and resilience of the human spirit, and amply confirms the talent that led her first novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize.