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The Beacon (2008)

door Susan Hill

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The Prime children grew up in a bleak North Country farmhouse called the Beacon. Colin married and went to work on a neighbouring farm. Bernice married locally, too. May stayed behind at the Beacon, the spinster daughter looking after ageing parents. And then there was Frank, Frank who was always watching. Frank was the one who got away. He left for London and Fleet Street, but journalism was not enough. Frank wanted fame and money... and he got them, by writing about his old home, his family, his past - as he remembers it...… (meer)
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I love Susan Hill's writing. Not the detective books she seems to be well known for now (at least, I've not read those ones) but her other quiet, sensitive, rural stories.

The Beacon is a house in rural north of England. May, who was the child who stayed at home with her parents through adulthood, is facing a new beginning as the last of her parents dies. As she contemplates the future, we're drawn into the missed chances of her youth and a mystery surrounding her brother Frank.

This isn't a book that's going to be on my best of the year list, but sometimes I'm just really in the mood for these quiet books which are all about the setting and memorable characters.

4 stars - not one I'm likely to think about too much in the future, but an enjoyable read nonetheless. ( )
  AlisonY | Oct 24, 2022 |
Held the attention thanks to Hill's style, but a thinly drawn story. ( )
  DougLasT | Apr 27, 2020 |
Wow! This short novel was amazing.

This is the story of four siblings....one of whom moves to the city and writes a memoir of childhood abuse. Only it isn't true. This novel tells of the impact on the author and on his siblings. The ending...the very last line...hits like a punch to the heart. ( )
  LynnB | Jan 16, 2015 |
This story had sinister undertones from the start but I was totally thrown by the last sentence which made me re-think my assumptions. ( )
  Carolinejyoung | Dec 25, 2012 |
It is a very interesting family story. It’s starting with the death of their mother. One of the daughters is living with her at the old family place where a lot of ancestors had lived. The family’s secrets and their lives are told as jumping throughout all the times but always coming back to the present. During this travel I became familiar with all the characters. As in every family there is also in this one a ‘black sheep’ and when the other siblings tried to avoid him mother’s last will is keeping them together and on the other hand separating them for ever.
I can strongly recommend this book. ( )
  Ameise1 | Jul 23, 2012 |
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t is all done so well, so wisely, that this short book is richly satisfying. Hill's craftsmanship is masterly. We are always aware of the farming backdrop: the book begins with a superb evocation of rural hardship, whose inexorable rhythms read like pared-down Thomas Hardy.

Within this is the story of May and the book becomes a near-Chekhovian story of dreams unfulfilled. Finally we reach Frank, who discovers in himself the ambitious desires that he cannot resist.

Through him and his "truth-telling", The Beacon gradually reveals itself; and it is a little masterpiece.
toegevoegd door PGCM | bewerkTelegraph, Laura Thompson (Oct 8, 2008)
 
The Beacon uses a small canvas, but it examines larger issues of truth, mental health and memory. It is about the almost universal need to shake off the past to forge an adult identity, and it comments subtly on the dynamics of prescribed family roles. The child expected to escape is the one ultimately imprisoned by parental assumptions, male freedom contrasted with female duty. Ideas about wasted lives, about grinding exhaustion at the expense of self-expression and about rank injustice are all here in a novel of great structural and stylistic control.
 
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May Price had been with her mother all afternoon, sitting in the cane chair a few feet away from the bed, but suddenly at seven o'clock she had jumped up and run out of the house and into the yard and stood staring at the gathering sky because she could not bear the dying a second longer.
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She had been married to a man she had loved and respected an now her future, like May's, was stretched bleakly before her. Perhaps if she and May had spoken about him,if they had spoken about anything more than trivial things, they would have found out at least this about one another, that there had been such love.
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The Prime children grew up in a bleak North Country farmhouse called the Beacon. Colin married and went to work on a neighbouring farm. Bernice married locally, too. May stayed behind at the Beacon, the spinster daughter looking after ageing parents. And then there was Frank, Frank who was always watching. Frank was the one who got away. He left for London and Fleet Street, but journalism was not enough. Frank wanted fame and money... and he got them, by writing about his old home, his family, his past - as he remembers it...

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