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Bloomsbury
July 2014
On Sale: July 8, 2014
Featuring: Michael; Kit; Louisa
336 pages
ISBN: 162040334X
EAN: 9781620403341
Kindle: B00J0VBVX0
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In April 1946 Michael returns from war and finds he cannot
face the life that awaits him at home. Impulsively he leaps
on a train to the western tip of Cornwall, and in doing so
changes his destiny. He finds himself in a bohemian colony
of artists gathered on the Cornish coast, and his fate is
shaped by his heart, his new environment, and the fragmented
Britain to which he has returned.
More than fifty years later, a man arrives in Norfolk to
claim—reluctantly—his inheritance: an abandoned lighthouse,
half hidden in the shadows of the past, now ready to cast
its beam forward. Kit, a successful businessman, is fairly
certain he wants no part in this legacy.
In a farmhouse, a woman falters in the middle of her life.
Louisa’s children are leaving home and the constant push and
pull of family life has turned like the tide of the Norfolk
sea—she is suspended, without direction. When Kit and Louisa
meet, neither can escape the consequences of Michael’s
split-second decision all those years ago.
Moving between the postwar artists’ colony in Cornwall and
present-day Norfolk, Raffaella Barker’s new novel explores
the secrets and flaws that can shape generations. From a
Distance is a nuanced and compelling story of human
connection and our desire to belong.
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