Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1958-06-10
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: UK
Istruzione: Oxford University
Alice Ottley School, Worcester, England, UK
Breve biografia: Nicci Gerrard grew up in Worcestershire with two sisters and a brother. She was educated at The Alice Ottley School and then studied English literature at Oxford University. She taught literature in Los Angeles and London. She founded a women's magazine before becoming a freelance journalist and novelist. During that time she married and had two children. After a divorce from her first husband, she met Sean French while working as editor for the New Statesman where French wrote a weekly column. Besides her own work, she also writes psychological thrillers with her husband under the pen name Nicci French.
Nota di disambiguazione: Please do not combine Nicci Gerrard's own LT entry with that of the husband-and-wife team of Gerrard and French.

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The Twilight Hour

These are my favourite books, they make me think of the choices I made. Loved it!

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KarlaWinters | 9 altre recensioni | Nov 19, 2021 |

The Twilight Hour di Nicci Gerrard

"The Twilight Hour" was a sweet read which focuses on the last phase of Eleanor's life. As Peter packs up her life, Eleanor reveals her past to him, telling him secrets no-one else in the family is aware of. At time sad and melancholy, this was a gentle novel about a life well lived.

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HeatherLINC | 9 altre recensioni | Oct 3, 2021 |

The Winter House di Nicci Gerrard

[This is a review I wrote in 2010]

**Only the hardest of hearts will fail to be moved by this story of loss, love and friendship**

The Winter House is the beguiling story of a woman summoned to confront the trappings of her youthful past, a complex quadrangle of tangled relations, which have long been buried but never forgotten. With a wisdom beyond its pages it is a novel that makes you explore you own half-forgotten friendships and relationships; whether consciously of subconsciously you cannot help but relate to Marnie's circumstances by placing a question mark against people, choices and events from your own past.

When Marnie receives a phone call out of the blue from old friend Oliver Fenton, he his summoning her to a small cottage in remote Scotland where their friend Ralph is dying. There was a time when these three, and Lucy (a fourth) were all very close and inseparable friends. But that all came to an abrupt end years ago and Marnie hasn't been in touch with the boys since. Can they all put past events behind them and transport themselves back to their youth, to give Ralph the peace, the strength and love he needs at the end? Much has happened in their lives since their youth, but will the bonds of friendship still be strong enough to see through their differences now?

It is a very warm and poignant novel, more about relationships and emotions than about events. The main characters are real, immediate, - very well portrayed. In just a couple of places I think the writing loses it's thread, with the theme of 'home' and 'homesickness' being ever so slightly over-played as well, but on the whole it's a novel I can recommend for its originality, kind heart, warmth and good story telling, and only the hardest of hearts will fail to be moved by this story of loss, love and friendship.… (altro)

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ArdizzoneFan | 13 altre recensioni | Nov 12, 2020 |

Huis van herinneringen di Nicci Gerrard

Als een 94-jarige vrouw naar een verzorgingstehuis gaat, moeten haar boeken, papieren en foto’s worden opgeruimd. Dat gaat gepaard met veel herinneringen

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huizenga | 9 altre recensioni | Oct 25, 2020 |

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