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A Best Debut Novel of the Year (Daily Mail) - "Raw and compelling"
In
contemporary and Edwardian London, two women are grieving the loss of a loved
one. Stella, turning thirty, is increasingly isolated after her mother died of
cancer; Julia, surrounded by friends, is longing for solitude as she mourns her
daughter, a young photographer who died after her return from an expedition in
the jungle of Sri Lanka.
Mysteriously
connected across time and space by a haunting image, each explores, in her own
voice, the complexities of the mother-daughter bond and family estrangement.
From the banks of the Thames in present-day south-east London to the coast of
East Devon and the Sri Lankan rainforest a hundred years earlier, Charlotte
Beeston's delicate debut novel moves with aching lucidity between tenderness
and raw emotion. Charting the ebb and flow of the grieving process, The White Flower captures the impact of loneliness on the female
psyche, and the permanence of love, art and friendship.
