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The Healing

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THE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' TAYARI JONES

'The novel's richness lies in its entertaining meandering, and the vitality of its spoken rhythms' MAYA JAGGI, GUARDIAN

'A moving affirmation of forgiveness and trust . . . The Healing should be cause for hope, sustenance and even celebration' VALERIE SAYERS, NEW YORK TIMES

Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a rock star's manager and race-track gambler. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and along the way she's somehow lost her own husband - a medical anthropologist now travelling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us ever deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale - the story of her first healing.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780349012186
Publication date: 3rd October 2019
Author: Gayl Jones
Publisher: Virago an imprint of Little, Brown
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 360 pages
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Genres: General Fiction
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
Religious and spiritual fiction