Book of the day - Cover Your Eyes

   

    I know a lot of us are fans of Adèle Geras's books, and will be glad to hear that her new novel for adults, Cover Your Eyes, has just been published. I'm greatly looking forward to this one and shall be reading it soon (and then passing it straight on to my mum who loves Adèle's work), but until I get to it, here's the blurb:

    "Eva was once a legendary fashion designer whose career ended abruptly. She lives with her family in Salix House, the home she's loved for forty years. When the family announces it's time to sell, Eva is reluctant. The house contains many memories and long held secrets.

    Megan is a fashion journalist who interviewed Eva for a magazine. Devastated at the end of a love affair, Megan is drawn back to Salix House.

    Although decades apart in age, both women share painful pasts. Perhaps together they can confront their fears, discover the truth of Salix House's secrets, and move on."

    Click here to read an article Adèle has written about the real and terrible events which form the background to the novel, and on a lighter note, the fun she had creating her central character's life in fashion - Eva is a Jean Muir figure, and that elegance and style should make for some lovely detail.

    Adèle ends her piece thus: "I think the present is much more interesting when it's aware of the past; when it looks back in some way. In Cover Your Eyes, Eva's early years are woven through  the text, threading scenes set in 1938 and at various times in the 1960s into a story that takes place in the present day. I hope that everyone who reads it enjoys this novel and relishes, like me, travelling magically through time."

    I can't wait!

Comments

[Adele Geras]

Thank you for this, Cornflower! It's made my weekend!

[Cornflower]

Pleasure! So looking forward to reading it!

[Margaret Powling]

Definitely one for me!!!

Jean Muir - I once read that she always wore the same style of dress in navy blue, as this prevented time wasted on deciding what to wear.

[LizF]

Have to confess that while I have read and thoroughly enjoyed several of Adele's books for younger readers (as did the daughter for whom they were ostensibly bought!) I have yet to read one of her adult books.
This definitely sounds like one for me though - the combination of houses, secrets and fashion sounds irresistable!

[Adele Geras]

Thanks LizF! My four previous adult novels are all available as ebooks from Quercus!