Product Description

Lillie has come a long way from the shimmering heat, big skies and rocky mountains of her home. A long way not just in terms of distance, but in terms of experience. For it is here in England, a land of cold, scuffed and tumbling streets, that she finds the love she has needed for so long. Lovesong is a romance, but it is also a tightly-woven thriller, a sumptuous and truly extraordinary work. Drawing on the themes of displacement and home that threaded through her previous novels, Gemmell has crafted a gripping plot, peopled it with sympathetic characters and enfolded it in language of startling originality and beauty.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #394732 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
'Lovesong is a lovely, lyrical creation that has melody and melancholy aching through its sentences... bewitchingly good' Elle, Book of the Month

About the Author
Nikki Gemmell is the author of Shiver and Cleave. She works for BBC Radio and lives in London.

Customer Reviews

Lovesong - casting it's spell
Wonderful to read.

Lillie, the main character in the book, is a troubled youth trying to find life from one continent to another.

It's romantic, yet displaced characters can be often identified with....A mother, uprooting herself from the country of her birth, to fall in love with a man from America and stay there, her daughter, Lillie, being sent to stay with her Grandfather, back in England, a man set in his ways, but with a rebel understanding in his heart....an aunt, so utterly British, A man, who uses women, another desperately in love...all entwined with the main character, who's lost in herself....and wants to discover life.

A novel haunting, intense and beautifully written, different and set apart the author conveys this in her style of writing, that's so addictive.

Fantastic book
This book was absolutely amazing. The writing style is superb and draws you in and made me not want to put the book down. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to read a book which is not instantly forgettable but stays with you. Fantastic. I will definitely be reading other books by Nikki Gemmell.

GLAMOUR magazine must-read
"A mesmerising read about the triumph of the human spirit, but there's no mushy sentimentality - Gemmell's third book has the heroine Lillie Bird discovering joy and pain in her new life. It's punchy but poetic and, above all, heartbreaking."