# The Language of Others

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- Book: [The Language of Others](https://www.bookquiver.com/clare-morrall/the-language-of-others) ([The Language of Others.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/clare-morrall/the-language-of-others.md))
- Authors: [Clare Morrall](https://www.bookquiver.com/clare-morrall)
- Publisher: sceptre
- ISBN: 978-03-4089-667-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-10-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'A surprisingly joyful novel' Daily Mail The world is a puzzling, sometimes frightening place for Jessica Fontaine. As a child she only finds contentment in playing the piano and wandering alone in the empty spaces of Audlands Hall, the dilapidated country house where she grows up. Twenty-five years later, divorced, with her son still living at home, Jessica remains preoccupied by the desire to create space around her. Then her volatile ex-husband reappears, the first of several surprises that both transform Jessica's present and give her a startling new perspective on the past. The Language of Others tells the absorbing story of a woman who spends much of her life feeling that she is out of step with the real world, until she discovers why. Related with humour and compassion, it offers a fresh, illuminating insight into what it means to be 'normal'.