The Service of Clouds: Unabridged [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Susan Hill (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1999

At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a women, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. The muslin curtains billow out towards her like clouds. There is a touch of brilliant red, the ribbon on her hat. The rest is the white, cream, palest grey. It is a painting which leads Flora on, beckoning her away from her childhood, her complaining, clinging mother, pert younger sister, and the confines of a small community, to a proud and self-reliant future. But later, its image is to prove the catalyst for the most signicant event in her life. Isolation, separation, solitude, betrayal. The shocks of life. The consolations and the beauty of death. A few piercing moments of absolute joy and perfect understanding. THE SERVICE OF CLOUDS is about these things, and also a bout love, loyalty, friendship, growing up and growing old.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Product Details

Audio Cassette
Publisher: Soundings Ltd; Unabridged edition (January 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1860425224
ISBN-13: 978-1860425226

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't be confused, February 21, 2001

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This review is from: The Service of Clouds (Paperback)

This is not so much a review as a brief warning. Don't confuse this book with that of Delia Falconer's fantastic book The Service of Clouds which was published some years earlier (and recently listed on Amazon as a wonderful magic realist book).

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