Description
In a small English village, eight-year-old Marianne is left behind when her mother disappears, and grief hardens into obsession as she tries to piece together a love she can barely remember. Alone with her baby brother and mourning father, she clings to fragments of her mother’s world—until a medieval poem, *Pearl*, offers a strange, lyrical pattern that seems to mirror her own life. As Marianne’s questions deepen and the river’s pull grows louder, the unmarked grave in an abandoned chapel and the secrets she suspects at home begin to shape her choices. Blending mystery, haunting beauty, and a tender reckoning with loss, the novel explores love, inheritance, and the long, difficult work of healing—written in Siân Hughes’s richly atmospheric, songlike style.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage
Published Jul 30, 2024
225 pages
ISBN: 9780593802571
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Details
First Published
2024
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Pearl by Siân Hughes.