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Penny Sumner has worked as a waitress, a photographer at a dolphin pool and a seller of antiquarian books. She came to England from Australia to do postgraduate studies at Oxford and currently lives with her family in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she works as course leader for the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Northumbria. She has edited a number of anthologies.
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'Wonderfully evocative with an epic historical sweep.' WESTERN MAIL 'Penny Sumner's inspired debut novel Tree of Angels ... takes the reader on an emotional journey through pre-revolutionary Russia to war-torn Britain and the tropics of Northern Australia ... wonderfully evocative.' OXFORD TIMES 'This is a great family saga covering 80 years ... There's a great sadness in the book but the story grips the reader from the early days of the century right through the wars and on to the new wrold. It is a meaty book, a story well told ... Sumner's next book will be eagerly awaited.' DUBLIN EVENING HERALD
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- PublisherOrion Publishing
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0752861263
- ISBN 13 9780752861265
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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