After Robert

by Sarah Quigley

Halley looks at the comet Soho nightly. But she knows it's not here to stay. She knows that Soho, like Robert, will soon disappear, leaving her with nothing but grief and an empty sky. So she moves with from London she follows Soho to southern skies, and arrives in New Zealand. Claudia is already there, but she's not moving. She's frozen in her own sense of loss. Part tragedy queen, part clown, she is grieving for something she can't even identify. Can Halley help her to unravel her secret This is the story of two women from opposite sides of the world who are powerfully connected by the stars. From the moment the comet Soho enters their orbit, their lives seem destined to collide.

324 pages, Paperback

First published January 27, 2000

About the author

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Born in New Zealand, Sarah Quigley is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Her work has been widely published and she has received several high-profile awards.

She has published several novels, two collections of short fiction and poetry, and a creative writing manual. Her new novel, The Conductor, tells the story of the writing of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony and its historic performance in besieged Leningrad in 1942.

Quigley lives and works in Berlin.

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF - couldn't get into it