THE MARINER'S STAR is a short, sharp, knock-out of a book. It's a gripping, dramatic adventure and a mesmeric love story: the last hours of a woman who has lost those she loves at sea, and sets out to face her own inevitable death. Whether or not she will survive storms and shipwreck in order to kill herself, or to find redemption, makes THE MARINER'S STAR one of the most exciting, shocking, powerful novels you will ever read.
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'Exquisite...By page 43, I had already recommended the book twice. By the end, I was making a list of people to whom I intended to give it...The Mariner's Star is a love story and, like all great love stories, a death story...the whole book is like a treat to be lingered over...[it] left me feeling hollowed out and weepy, although I hesitate to say so, because its overall effect is of such intense, and profound, pleasure' Observer 'In astonishingly beautiful prose - taut, lyrical, passionate and poetic - the young Candida Clark tells the increasingly irresistible story of her journey towards, and through, the enticing allure of memory and utter despair' Harpers & Queen 'Arresting...The Mariner's Star is unlike anything else currently being written in England, worked out with enormous conviction and conveying the seriousness of its authorial purpose at every turn' DJ Taylor, The Literary Review 'Beautifully written by a novelist to watch' Robert McCrum, Observer 'Clark writes mellifluously. Image is piled upon image. Rhapsodic evocation of sensuous pleasure gives way to equally rhapsodic description of natural beauty...This is literary lace-making, insubstantial but exquisite' The Sunday Times 'Clark is an interesting and imaginative novelist, and far too few of today's fiction writer's take risks with form or style' Guardian
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Candida Clark reviews regularly for the Observer and the Telegraph. She is thirty, and lives in Oxford. This is her third novel.
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