Fiction
Category: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 192
ISBN: 9781854115362
Publication date: May 16, 2011
Price: £7.99
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“..Collins deftly pieces together the anatomy of a relationship, imagining what could have been, and offering a hint of hope for what might still come to pass” — The Guardian
“…this is another powerful, intriguing novel by Richard Collins. his poignant final scene is truly impressive and will reverberate in the mind for a long time to come.” — New Welsh Review
Bristol Book of the Week — Bristol Evening Post
The city is one part tarmac and stone, one part memory and imagination. It is a coming together of past, present and future. It is perhaps, a meeting place and a turning point for three people whose lives have touched before.
Isabel is here to start a new job and a new life. Michael has always been here, but now, struggling with illness, everything looks different. And Daniel has come to think about a relationship and to look after a cat. He is quite certain that he did not come to this place to revisit the past…
The Quality of Light is a lyrical novel of love, time and geography from Whitbread-shortlisted author Richard Collins.
Richard Collins
Richard Collins was, among other things, a farm labourer, gardener and estate worker. He lived with his family in west Wales and taught at the Institute of Rural Sciences in Llanbadarn for Aberystwyth University. His debut novel for Seren, The Land as Viewed from the Sea (2004), was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize. His other works include two further novels: Overland (2006) and The Quality of Light (2011), and a travel book/memoir The Road to Zagora (2015) about his response to being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.
