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The Professor of Poetry

By: Grace McCleen

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Elizabeth Stone, a respected academic, has a new lease on life. In remission from cancer, she returns to the city where she was a student over thirty years ago to investigate some little-known papers by T. S. Eliot, which she believes contain the seeds of her masterpiece; a masterpiece that centres on a poem given to her when she was eighteen by the elusive Professor Hunt... But as the days pass in the city she loves and her friendship with Professor Hunt is rekindled, her memories return her to a time shadowed by loneliness, longing and quiet despair, and to an undeclared but overwhelming love. Paralysed by the fear of writing something worthless, haunted by a sense of waste, Elizabeth Stone comes to realise she is facing the biggest test of her life. As in her acclaimed debut The Land of Decoration, Grace McCleen gives an intense evocation of place, an unflinching portrayal of a character by turns comic, absurd, and disturbing, and a powerful sense of the transcendent within the ordinary. Profound and hypnotic, The Professor of Poetry devastates even as it exhilarates and echoes long after it has been closed.

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1444769987

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The Land of Decoration

A Novel

By: Grace McCleen

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The Land of Decoration

A Novel

By: Grace McCleen

A mesmerizing debut about a young girl whose steadfast belief and imagination bring everything she once held dear into treacherous balance In Grace McCleen's harrowing, powerful debut, she introduces an unforgettable heroine in ten-year-old Judith McPherson, a young believer who sees the world with the clear Eyes of Faith. Persecuted at school for her beliefs and struggling with her distant, devout father at home, young Judith finds solace and connection in a model in miniature of the Promised Land that she has constructed in her room from collected discarded scraps--the Land of Decoration. Where others might see rubbish, Judith sees possibility and divinity in even the strangest traces left behind. As ominous forces disrupt the peace in her and Father's modest lives--a strike threatens her father's factory job, and the taunting at school slips into dangerous territory--Judith makes a miracle in the Land of Decoration that solidifies her blossoming convictions. She is God's chosen instrument. But the heady consequences of her newfound power are difficult to control and may threaten the very foundations of her world. With its intensely taut storytelling and crystalline prose, The Land of Decoration is a gripping, psychologically complex story of good and evil, belonging and isolation, which casts new and startling light on how far we'll go to protect the things we love most.

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Henry Holt and Company

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0805095276

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9780805095272

How Much the Heart Can Hold

Seven Stories on Love

By: Carys Bray,Rowan Hisayo Buchanan,Bernardine Evaristo,Grace McCleen,Donal Ryan,Nikesh Shukla,D.W. Wilson

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How Much the Heart Can Hold

Seven Stories on Love

By: Carys Bray,Rowan Hisayo Buchanan,Bernardine Evaristo,Grace McCleen,Donal Ryan,Nikesh Shukla,D.W. Wilson

Startlingly original stories.' S Magazine 'Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming that the word necessarily conveys.' Observer Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. 'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda Fitzgerald This paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the SceptreLoves short story Prize.

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1473649447

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Anima: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

By: Grace McCleen

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Anima: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

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A story from Grace McCleen to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008303142

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The Land of Decoration

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Anima: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

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A story from Grace McCleen to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.

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The Land of Decoration

By: Grace McCleen

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The Land of Decoration

By: Grace McCleen

10-year-old Judith McPherson's world is regimented by her father's faith. Her mother has gone, so Judith consoles herself with 'the Land of Decoration' - an intricate model of The Promised Land which she has built in her bedroom.

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1445826941

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How Much the Heart Can Hold

Seven Stories on Love

By: Carys Bray,Rowan Hisayo Buchanan,Bernardine Evaristo,Grace McCleen,Donal Ryan,Nikesh Shukla,D.W. Wilson

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Seven Stories on Love

By: Carys Bray,Rowan Hisayo Buchanan,Bernardine Evaristo,Grace McCleen,Donal Ryan,Nikesh Shukla,D.W. Wilson

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The Professor of Poetry

The Professor of Poetry

The Land of Decoration

The Land of Decoration

How Much the Heart Can Hold

How Much the Heart Can Hold

Anima: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

Anima: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

The Land of Decoration

The Land of Decoration

Anima: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

Anima: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

The Land of Decoration

The Land of Decoration

How Much the Heart Can Hold

How Much the Heart Can Hold

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