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Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay is a novel by William Boyd, published by Bloomsbury in 2015. A fictional autobiography supposedly written by a woman, Amory Clay, born in 1908, [1] it includes extracts from her diary, written on a Hebridean island in 1977, with flashbacks from her career as a photographer in London ...
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- 2015
27 ago 2015 · Read 961 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave….
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So it’s very interesting to read William Boyd’s “Sweet Caress,” written not only in the voice of a woman but of a woman born more than four decades before the author. An Englishman best ...
Description. THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand – but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future.
30 lug 2015 · Sweet Caress by William Boyd, book review: The novelist's new mystery is his best in years. William Boyd's novel puts an intrepid female photographer at its heart. It is his best work since...
5 set 2015 · Sweet Caress. Author: William Boyd. ISBN-13: 978-1408867976. Publisher: Bloomsbury. Guideline Price: €18.99. When the birth of Amory Clay, the protagonist of this novel, is announced in the...
Born into Edwardian England, Amory's first memory is of her father standing on his head. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers.
