David Smith
Paperback | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 4.4 | 20 Users | 14 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 1783063580 (ISBN13: 9781783063581) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=2629 |
| Setting: | England |
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When Jade, a passionate young photographer, is attacked by drug pushers and saved by the brooding shipwright Martin, she becomes increasingly obsessed with her reluctant hero’s tragic back-story. Her pursuit of Martin’s affection and her consequent obsessive search for Martin’s lost sister, Amber, ultimately leads Jade to discover the truth about her own mother, who abandoned her as a baby in the late 1950s, and the tragic events that led to her disappearance.The inner lives of the main characters, their friends and the forces of sea and storm that confound them, unfold and intertwine over three distinct time periods; 1950s Aldeburgh, late 1970/80s Suffolk, and 1990s London and Essex, where they eventually reunite.
Searching for Amber is an engaging exploration of love, violence, betrayal and loss, told through beautiful writing, natural imagery and poetry. It is a story that takes into its sweep the breathtaking seascapes of Britten’s Suffolk, the rural idyll of Coggeshall and its Martyrs, and the brash vibrancy of Thatcher’s London. In creating this lyrical tale, David Smith has been inspired by Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes, Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock and Shakespeare’s The Tempest, as well as his memories of romantic weekends spent in Aldeburgh with his wife.
This book will appeal to romantics with a love of the sea, and those with an interest in history, art and music.
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| Title | : | Searching for Amber |
| Author | : | David Smith |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | April 28th 2014 by Troubador Publishing Ltd (first published April 2nd 2014) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Detective. Literary Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.4 From 20 Users | 14 ReviewsJudgment Based On Books Searching for Amber
The first chapter had me hooked, the story is beautifully described and I found myself thoroughly absorbed into the storyline. I choose this as my weekly commute read and it proved a great choice. I may just be a reader but from I do read extensively and I think Searching For Amber is an excellent debut novel.I received this book through Goodreads First Reads. It is exquisitely written, beautifully descriptive and quite dreamy in the images it provokes. I admit it's not my usual style of book and took me a couple of chapters to get into the style of writing. But all in all worth reading. I give it a generous 4 out of 5 due to its beautifully descriptive finer details that many books lack.
A very beautifully written story. There is depth to this book that has you thinking about it even after you set it down. I enjoyed the descriptiveness of the writing. The flipping between time eras actually added to the story.
I received a copy of this book through Goodreads, and I'm so pleased I did. It was a fabulous read and had me totally engrossed. Beautifully written and evocative.....(I did shed a few tears reading it!)
Searching for Amber by David Smith is a work of literary fiction. I have to declare an interest in that I read and reviewed this as a Goodreads Giveaway. I dont enter these regularly, it is an occasional thing when I have little to do and as I was nursing a broken ankle I had time on my hands. I like to be adventurous with my reading and while most of the blurbs on Giveaways tell half the plot, this one drew my attention because it had only one sentence.Under the fluid metal of a steel-blue sky,
Jade does not see the world like everyone else.A photographer by trade, she sees it more clearly through the lens of her camera. She is tough but takes photographs that show people as they really are, stripping the walls down and laying what she sees bare.Abandoned by her mother and raised by her adoptive parents, Jade has always felt that a piece of her was missing. Only truly happy when she is creating, Jade trudges through the world, looking for that lost piece of herself. She feels alone in
Described as an exciting voice in Contemporary Literature, David Smith has published four novels all with strong themes of romance and intrigue. His first novel Searching For Amber has been described as "A powerful and notably memorable debut" with a review describing it as "masterly and confident" and another as "Extraordinary, poetic, enchanting, sublime". His latest novel Letters to Strabo hasSearching for Amber by David Smith is a work of literary fiction. I have to declare an interest in that I read and reviewed this as a Goodreads Giveaway. I dont enter these regularly, it is an occasional thing when I have little to do and as I was nursing a broken ankle I had time on my hands. I like to be adventurous with my reading and while most of the blurbs on Giveaways tell half the plot, this one drew my attention because it had only one sentence.Under the fluid metal of a steel-blue sky,
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