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The Stone Angel Mass Market Paperback – 28 February 2011
Katherine Scholes (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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One summer changed Stella Boyd forever. It was 1975. And his name was Zeph.
Fifteen years later, Stella's life is full of excitement and danger as she travels the world writing magazine articles about women. But then one day she receives an urgent message that changes everything. Her father is missing at sea.
Stella heads home to Halfmoon Bay, the Tasmanian fishing village where she grew up. She desperately doesn't want to face the painful memories that await her. But as she takes part in the search for her father, the life of her old home draws in around her. She finds herself taken back to that extraordinary summer when she met a young man who was sailing the world alone. A time of devastating tragedy, but also of first love . . .
Like the sea itself, the past rises up, refusing to be ignored. There are dark secrets to be unearthed, lost dreams recovered. Only then can hearts be healed, and an unexpected reward be claimed.
'A truly absorbing book filled with secrets and conflicts.' Woman's Day
- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date28 February 2011
- Dimensions12.9 x 4.2 x 19.7 cm
- ISBN-100143206524
- ISBN-13978-0143206521
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About the Author
Her novel The Blue Chameleon won a New South Wales Premier's Literary Award and The Stone Angel was longlisted in the International Dublin Literary Awards. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages, and includes children's titles as well as novels for adults. She has also worked as a documentary filmmaker.
Katherine was born in Tanzania, the daughter of a doctor and an artist. Parts of her childhood were spent camping in remote areas where her father operated a clinic from his Land Rover and her mother painted. When she was ten, the family left Africa, going briefly to England, then migrating to Australia. She now lives in Tasmania with her husband and two sons, but makes regular trips back to her homeland, where many of her novels are set.
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- Publisher : Penguin; 1st edition (28 February 2011)
- Language : English
- Mass Market Paperback : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0143206524
- ISBN-13 : 978-0143206521
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 4.2 x 19.7 cm
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Katherine Scholes was born in Tanzania, the daughter of a missionary doctor and an artist. She has fond memories of going on safaris to remote areas where her father operated a clinic from his Land Rover. She now lives in Australia but makes regular trips back to Africa, which is the setting of some of her best-loved novels including the international bestsellers 'The Rain Queen', 'The Hunter’s Wife' and 'The Lioness'. She is particularly popular in Germany and France where she has sold over two million books. She is the author of the widely published children’s books 'The Boy and the Whale', 'Peacetimes' and 'The Landing' and the young adult novel 'The Blue Chameleon'. She has also worked as a documentary filmmaker.
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Ms Scholes paints vivid pictures in all of her scenes. The narrative ebbs and flows in such a natural way that it carries you along with it. It makes you think, ponder, and imagine. Sometimes, it makes you cry, and sometimes it makes you regret those times in your life when a choice beyond your control changed your life as you imagined it may otherwise be.
The characters are richly written and believable. Grace, who would bake and cook out of her hand-written recipe book when life became too hard, Stella with her contained persona and love of solitude, and William, who did what he thought was right at the time. And what can I say about Zeph? Loved him. I lived on a yacht for a while in my early twenties, and as I floated through the pages of this wonderful book, I could taste the sea, hear the rigging ding against the mast, and touch the rich teak of the deck.
If you want a novel to take you away to a place you may not normally go, in this instance Tasmania, The Stone Angel won't disappoint. I have read many books so far this year and it is one of the best. I can't wait for the movie - if there ever is one.

Stella felt like a real person. I so dislike people like her father.

