Product Description
And Notre Dame Is Burning (Paperback)
Author: Miriam Robinson
Format: Paperback
Esther’s marriage begins, and ends, in the shadow of Notre Dame cathedral.
Now, time has flattened.
Sifting through the ashes of their years together, Esther finds a litany of feelings and memories that no longer make sense, offer no comfort, and that she cannot trust.
Esther seeks help – from generations of women, books, a philosopher, from her own mother – but mostly, she writes. Fragments, notes, letters. Esther writes, and rewrites, until time slowly takes shape again.
Miriam Robinson’s powerful debut is an excavation of betrayal, motherhood, guilt and consequence; of love coming to an end. Told with wit, empathy and startling ferocity, And Notre Dame is Burning is a novel of wounds and of healing.
‘A beautifully wrought, thought-provoking novel from a thrilling new voice in literary fiction’ — Charlotte Heathcote, Mail on Sunday
‘Miriam Robinson is an incredible writer and this is an astounding debut’ — Nina Pottell, Prima Magazine
‘Feels genuinely fresh… Stunning’ — Good Housekeeping
‘Stunning’ — Nuala McGovern, Woman’s Hour
‘This page-turning novel [is] a beacon of hope, as its heroine discovers new ways of living – and of becoming herself’ — Erica Wagner, Harper’s Bazaar
‘Robinson’s debut is exceptional . . . In writing Esther, she has beautifully captured some of the universal aspects of womanhood’ — Katie Fraser, The Bookseller
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