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Shade

Nina Hardy has been murdered. She died in the house where she grew up, killed by George, her childhood friend. But her body is never found, and she remains a silent shade, watching the events of her own afterlife. She must watch her half-brother Gregory as he arrives to bury her, after some thirty years away; and Janie as she attempts to elict a confession from George, her brother. Through them Nina will relive their lives together, and somehow begin to make sense of the people they all become.

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  • "Nina Hardy has been murdered. She died in the house where she grew up, killed by George, her childhood friend. But her body is never found, and she remains a silent shade, watching the events of her own afterlife. She must watch her half-brother Gregory as he arrives to bury her, after some thirty years away; and Janie as she attempts to elict a confession from George, her brother. Through them Nina will relive their lives together, and somehow begin to make sense of the people they all become."@en
  • "Set in Ireland between the 1900s and 1950s, Shade is a haunting novel of love and war. Beginning with a violent and mysterious murder, Shade tells the story of two pairs of siblings growing up in Ireland in the first half of the century and how their lives interweave. Through a childhood that memory will give the luster of romance and the tragedy that comes as the children's innocence ends and the two boys leave for the Great War, these unforgettable characters reach mid-century inexorably moving towards playing roles in the brutal murder that begins the novel--a murder that may ultimately be revealed as the opposite of the senseless crime it seems."@en
  • "Nina Hardy has been murdered. She died in the house where she grew up, killed by George, her childhood friend. But her body is never found, and she remains a silent shade, watching the events of her own afterlife. She must watch her half-brother Gregory as he arrives to bury her, after some thrity years away; and Janie as she attempts to elict a confession from George, her brother. Through them Nina will relive their lives together, and somehow begin to make sense of the people they all become."@en
  • "Nina Hardy, murdered by her childhood friend, George, watches and retells the events of her life and afterlife, as her half-brother retraces their childhood together, revealing the crime against Nina in all its full and heartbreaking meaning."@en
  • "Nina Hardy has been murdered, killed by her childhood friend George. But her body is never found, and she remains a silent shade, watching--and retelling--the events of her life, and afterlife. Nina's half brother, Gregory, makes a pilgrimage home for her funeral. There he finds Janie, George's sister and the fourth member of their childhood gang. With Nina's shade as witness, they retrace a seemingly idyllic Irish childhood beside the mudflats of the River Boyne. As the children reach adolescence, however, the fragile balance of their friendships is interrupted. Torn apart by the outbreak of war, they find that each has changed almost beyond recognition. And by the end the seemingly senseless crime with which the story begins is revealed in all its full and heartbreaking meaning."

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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks (Playaway)"
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Playaway"

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  • "Shade"@en
  • "Shade"
  • "Shade a novel"@en
  • "Shade a novel"
  • "Shade [a novel]"
  • "Shade [a novel]"@en

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