A Heart of Stone
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Growing up with her adored siblings in a rambling house in Holland -- out of which her parents run an American news-clipping service -- clever, precocious Ellen has an idyllic childhood suffused with Americana. Then, on her twelfth birthday, family disaster strikes, shattering her carefree life. Twenty-five years later, Ellen returns and plunges into the past as she leafs through a faded photo album and confronts the literal and figurative ghosts of her childhood. Seamlessly alternating the past and present, taut with Hitchcockian tension and warmed by a redemptive love story, A Heart of Stone is a wise and memorable novel.
Author: Renate Dorrestein
Format: Hardback, 328 pages, 144mm x 221mm, 522 g
Published: 2001, Thorndike Press, United States
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Growing up with her adored siblings in a rambling house in Holland -- out of which her parents run an American news-clipping service -- clever, precocious Ellen has an idyllic childhood suffused with Americana. Then, on her twelfth birthday, family disaster strikes, shattering her carefree life. Twenty-five years later, Ellen returns and plunges into the past as she leafs through a faded photo album and confronts the literal and figurative ghosts of her childhood. Seamlessly alternating the past and present, taut with Hitchcockian tension and warmed by a redemptive love story, A Heart of Stone is a wise and memorable novel.