The Way We Danced (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781781999486)

Ruth Deacon s academic career is in the doldrums, her marriage is in shreds, an elderly relative with dementia has become an impossible burden. Ruth needs a miracle. It comes in the form of The Memory Book . Edith Barratt, an elderly writer seeing out her last days in a nursing home, has decided to entrust a lifetime of writings to Ruth, to publish after her death. And, by also giving her the Memory Book, she breaks a lifetime of silence about a youthful love that has dominated her entire life. Ruth eagerly seizes on this material it could rescue her career. When she discovers that Edith s one-time love was an idealistic soldier of the Third Reich, she is even more encouraged. But then she finds herself faced with a challenge: that of exploring the gap between memory and desire, reality and illusion. Did Edith s young German truly love her? And what is the significance of a half-remembered melody sung by Fred Astaire? Starting in Belfast, moving through pre-war Berlin and returning to Ireland s tentative and fragile peace of 1995, Sophia Hillan s new novel traces a path to those things that cannot, in the end, be taken away.

Author: Sophia Hillan
ISBN-10: 1781999481
ISBN-13: 9781781999486
Publisher: Poolbeg Press
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2016
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d