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The Loss Adjustor
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Book Details
- ISBN 9781846687303
- 25 February 2010
- Paperback
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Synopsis
Caro has a successful career as a loss adjustor in London. But unresolved losses of her own keep her trapped in the past. She is sustained by memories of a magical childhood shared with her best friends Estelle and Cormac, yet haunted by the tragic events that destroyed their age of innocence.
When celebrity rock-star Cormac unexpectedly reappears in her life after a twenty year gap, Caro is forced to confront her troubled past.
The Loss Adjustor, Aifric Campbell's searingly evocative second novel, portrays the power of the past to stifle the present and explores the emotional restraints that shackle our ability to experience life.
Reviews
‘I love this book. It’s written with great beauty and presence’ Joseph O’Connor
‘Sexy, sad, riven with longing, The Loss Adjustor confirms a talent of unusual promise’ Nicholas Shakespeare
‘So full of beautiful writing that even the insurance industry comes to life. From its beguiling first sentence – “I was born in a place that presumed departure” – to its simple, humane ending, it is beautiful to read. Aifric Campbell’s language is rich and exact, never flowering into too much; she is concise without being dry, her characters painted in deft, tight strokes’ - Suzanne Harrington, Irish Examiner
‘Aifric Campbell’s absorbing second novel celebrates friendship past and present and the enduring hope of redemption’ - Waterstone's Books Quarterly
‘Clear-eyed, lyrical... Campbell manages to infuse the cool, lucid language of narrator with some truly luminous descriptions of place and emotion... a book that demands to be taken seriously, both because of its ambitions and the beauty of its writing’ - Catherine Heaney, Irish Times