Mari Strachan is a Welsh novelist and librarian. Her first novel, The Earth Hums in B Flat, works on one level as a detective story, while on another dealing with the problems of growing up in a small Welsh village in the s, and more generally with the influence of the past on the present/5(). · Quotes by Mari Strachan “Up here, far away from everybody, the night is peaceful: there's no sound except the hum of the Earth. At school, when I sang the note to Mr Hughes Music he said it was B flat but he laughed when I said it was the note the Earth hummed/5. · The Earth Hums in B Flat is a richly evocative, warm but unsentimental tale of a child detective struggling to piece together clues about the lives around her extremely compelling. I loved this novel. author of What Was Lost Catherine O'Flynn. Strachan's prose is pitch perfect. A gorgeous debut. Marie Claire - Eithne FarryBrand: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
The Earth Hums in B Flat is a richly evocative, warm but unsentimental tale of a child detective struggling to piece together clues about the lives around her. These lives, and the characters who live them, are so vividly drawn and Mari Strachan's careful unraveling of the secrets they hide is extremely compelling. the earth hums in b flat by Mari Strachan ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 1, Murder, suicide, madness and awful food: An artless Welsh child must deal with them all in this dire first novel from Strachan, a resident of West Wales. Strachan's deft handling of a dark subject is both sober and sparkling."— The Guardian "One of those books that eases you in gently and then floors you The Earth Hums in B Flat reads authentically, and the fictive truth in the story remains consistent and powerful as Gwenni moves towards the end.
Mari Strachan is a Welsh novelist and librarian. Her first novel, The Earth Hums in B Flat, works on one level as a detective story, while on another dealing with the problems of growing up in a small Welsh village in the s, and more generally with the influence of the past on the present. About Mari Strachan Mari Strachan has worked as a librarian, book reviewer, researcher, translator, copy writer and web editor. She lives with her husband in the hills of Ceredigion, Wales. The Earth Hums in B Flat is her first book. A reader’s introduction to The Earth Hums in B Flat. ‘ I rise up, up, up into the sky where the air is as soft to. The Earth Hums in B Flat is a story of dark family secrets unraveled by the shrewd insight of twelve-year-old Gwenni Morgan, a child with an irrepressible spirit living in a Welsh village that is reluctantly entering the modern age. A dreamer with a knack for collecting and piecing together tidbits of information she overhears, Gwenni is forever asking unanswerable questions.
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