On Hampstead Heath: A Delightfully Sharp and Witty Comedy of Errors by Cobbold, Marika

On Hampstead Heath: A Delightfully Sharp and Witty Comedy of Errors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781529422658)

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On Hampstead Heath: A Delightfully Sharp and Witty Comedy of Errors by Cobbold, Marika

On Hampstead Heath: A Delightfully Sharp and Witty Comedy of Errors

$17.99
On Hampstead Heath: A Delightfully Sharp and Witty Comedy of Errors by Cobbold, Marika

On Hampstead Heath: A Delightfully Sharp and Witty Comedy of Errors

$17.99
Format: Paperback
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"A mystery and an elegy for the death of old-fashioned journalism, it's a book that will warm your heart." The Observer

"Splendid . . . Funny, poignant, perceptive and plenty of sharp elbows along the way." Val McDermid

Thorn Marsh was raised in a house of whispers, of meaningful glances and half- finished sentences. Now she's a journalist with a passion for truth, more devoted to her work at the London Journal than she ever was to her ex-husband.

When the newspaper is bought by media giant The Goring Group, who value sales figures over fact-checking, Thorn openly questions their methods, and promptly finds herself moved from the news desk to the midweek supplement, reporting heart-warming stories for their new segment, The Bright Side, a job to which she is spectacularly unsuited.

On a final warning and with no heart-warming news in sight, a desperate Thorn fabricates a good-news story of her own. The story, centred on an angelic apparition on Hampstead Heath, goes viral. Caught between her principles and her ambitions, Thorn goes in search of the truth behind her creation, only to find the answers locked away in the unconscious mind of a stranger.

Marika Cobbold returns with her eighth novel, On Hampstead Heath. Sharp, poignant, and infused with dark humour, On Hampstead Heath is an homage to storytelling and to truth; to the tales we tell ourselves, and the stories that save us.

Author: Marika Cobbold
ISBN-10: 1529422655
ISBN-13: 9781529422658
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2023
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d
By Marika Cobbold
By Marika Cobbold
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Marika Cobbold was born with newspaper ink flowing through her veins. She used to visit her father and grandfather at their offices at the Gothenburg-Post, the Swedish broadsheet her grandfather had rescued from oblivion decades earlier.

At home, when Marika wasn't reading, she listened as the grown-ups around her discussed the issues of the day, and to the stories told by her mother and great aunt, who was a writer.

She left Sweden for England when she was nineteen, with vague plans of studying law, but eventually what her grandfather called "the family curse" caught up with her, and some years later she wrote her first novel, Guppies For Tea. She has been writing ever since.

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