High Dive by Jonathan Lee

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High Dive by Jonathan Lee | 716.25 KB
English | 336 Pages

Title: High Dive
Author: Jonathan Lee
Year: 2015​

Description:​

"A major new voice in British fiction" (The Guardian) arrives on these shores with a moving and darkly funny novel, set around a bustling seaside hotel that is about to be transformed by violence: a bold, astonishingly intimate exploration of how the ordinary unfolds into tragedy.

In September 1984, a bomb was planted in the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, set to explode on the day Margaret Thatcher and her entire cabinet would be staying there.High Dive takes us inside this audacious assassination attempt, and also into the hearts and minds of a group of unforgettable characters. Nimbly weaving together fact and fiction, comedy and tragedy, the story switches among the perspectives of Dan, a young IRA bomb maker; Moose, a former star athlete gone to seed, now the career-minded deputy hotel manager; and Freya, his teenage daughter, trying to decide what comes after high school. A novel of laughter and heartbreak, this is an indelible portrait of...

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