Rachel Joyce Collection 4 Books Set - Fiction - Paperback

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In the claustrophobic heat, he and his friend begin ‘Operation Perfect’, a hapless mission to rescue Byron’s mother from impending crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinter, present day: As frost creeps across the moor, Jim cleans tables in the local café, a solitary figure struggling with OCD. His job is a relief from the rituals that govern his nights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLittle would seem to connect them except that two seconds can change everything.\u003cbr\u003eIf your world can be shattered in an instant, might time also put things right?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Music Shop\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. 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And yet together they will be drawn into an adventure that will exceed every expectation. They will risk everything, break all the rules, and at the top of a red mountain, discover their best selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Homemade God\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThere is a heatwave across Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, has recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece. 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Perfect\u003cbr\u003e2. The Music Shop\u003cbr\u003e3. Miss Benson's Beetle\u003cbr\u003e4. The Homemade God\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eSummer, 1972: Two seconds have been added to the Atomic clock so as to counteract the irregularities in the Earth's rate of rotation. Eleven-year-old Byron has been told this but still struggles to understand. What might it mean? In the claustrophobic heat, he and his friend begin ‘Operation Perfect’, a hapless mission to rescue Byron’s mother from impending crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinter, present day: As frost creeps across the moor, Jim cleans tables in the local café, a solitary figure struggling with OCD. His job is a relief from the rituals that govern his nights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLittle would seem to connect them except that two seconds can change everything.\u003cbr\u003eIf your world can be shattered in an instant, might time also put things right?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Music Shop\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIlse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with her pea-green coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to re-open and a past he will never leave behind ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiss Benson's Beetle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIt is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may not exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnid Pretty, in her unlikely pink travel suit, is not the companion Margery had in mind. And yet together they will be drawn into an adventure that will exceed every expectation. They will risk everything, break all the rules, and at the top of a red mountain, discover their best selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Homemade God\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThere is a heatwave across Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, has recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece. Now he is dead and there is no sign of a painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough the siblings have always been close, as they search for answers over that summer, the things they learn - about themselves, their father and their new stepmother - will drive them apart before they can come to any kind of understanding of what their father's legacy truly is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExtraordinarily compelling, at heart this is a novel about sibling relationships and those hairline cracks that can appear within a family: what happens when they splinter, and what it would take to mend them.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}