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Publisher: Canongate

Author: Karen Campbell

ISBN: 9781838855109

Year: 2023

Format: Paperback

Fiction, Romance

Paper Cup by
Karen Campbell

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$ 550.00 mxn

Paper Cup by

Karen Campbell

Reviews

"Paper Cup is very special indeed. Not only is it exquisitely written -and I mean catch-your-breath exquisite- the story is so real and told with such grace and compassion… Trust me, your world will be a better place for reading this story."

Joanna Cannon

Summary

What if going back means you could begin again?

Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly needs to escape the city streets of Glasgow. Maybe she doesn’t believe in serendipity, but a rare moment of kindness and a lost ring conspire to call her home. As Kelly vows to reunite the lost ring with its owner, she must return to the small town she fled so many years ago.

On her journey from Glasgow to the south-west tip of Scotland, Kelly encounters ancient pilgrim routes, hostile humans, hippies, book lovers and a friendly dog, as memories stir and the people she thought she’d left behind forever move closer with every step.

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

John Steinbeck

“I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”

Nan Shepard

“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”

Elena Ferrante

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

Kate Grenville