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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446485200
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Air and Angels





An unsettling and absorbing tale from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

An unsettling and absorbing tale from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

Celibate, irreproachable and distinguished, Thomas Cavendish is in his mid-fifties and the obvious man to become Master of his college. But, walking by the river, Thomas sees a young girl standing on the bridge. It is an apocalyptic vision, one that alters Thomas's life irrevocably and tragically, but with the beauty and joy of a love never previously imagined.

‘As light as a feather but as powerful as flight’ Observer

  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446485200
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

About the author

Susan Hill

Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black has been running in London’s West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

www.susanhill.org.uk

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Praise for Air and Angels

As light as a feather but as powerful as flight

Observer

Elegant and highly stylised...the prose has a lulling, rolling cadence

Guardian

Hill breaks all the rules of British irony and gets away with it, thanks in part to her obsessive imagination

Independent

Subtle and profoundly beautiful

Scotsman

Subtle and profoundly moving, this novel is rich in the qualities for which Hill has won such high praise in the past

Sunday Times
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