by Susan Elderkin, Ella Berthoud · Canongate Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780857864215
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«The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies» is the literary guide by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud, published by Canongate Books in paperback.
An A to Z reference work that prescribes novels as remedies for physical and emotional ailments, from a stubbed finger to deep sadness. It also addresses the reader's ills, such as feeling overwhelmed by unread books or abandoning half-finished reads. Read at the right moment, a novel can change a life.
The volume has 460 pages and is written in English; it appears in health and wellness and in literature and fiction. Its authors also write The Story Cure.
Aimed at readers seeking novel recommendations based on their mood and at those who consider reading a form of wellness.
Susan Elderkin is an English author of two critically acclaimed novels, her first, Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, her second, The Voices was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was one of Granta Magazine's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and won the 2007 Society of Authors Travel Award. She is the author, with Ella Berthoud, of The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies and The Story Cure: Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise.
