This Is Life - Softcover

Rhodes, Dan

3.81

1,015 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857862456 ISBN 13: 9780857862457

Publisher: Canongate UK, 2012

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This is Life is a missing baby mystery and an enchanted Parisian adventure. Hand in hand with lovable heroine Aurelie Renard, you will see life as you've never seen it before, discover the key to great art, witness the true cost of love, and learn how all these things may be controlled by the in-breath of a cormorant. Chock-full of charming characters and hilarious set-pieces this is a hugely enjoyable novel that will make you see life anew.

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About the Author:

Dan Rhodes was born in 1972. He is the author of six other books: Anthropology, Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love, Timoleon Vieta Come Home, Gold, Little Hands Clapping and, writing as Danuta de Rhodes, The Little White Car. In 2003 he was named by Granta magazine as one of their Twenty Best of Young British Novelists and in 2010 by the Daily Telegraph as one of their Best British Novelists Under Forty. He is the winner of many awards including the Author's Club First Novel Award and the E.M. Forster Award. He lives in Derbyshire.

Review:

"Rhodes, one of Granta's '20 Best British Novelists,' has produced another wonderful work...readers will be immersed in these chracters." —Publishers Weekly

"Often comic and sometimes tragic, readers will be immersed in these characters, each with a different rhythm; even the least significant of supporting players are brought to life." — The Sunday Examiner Washington

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