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Tru by Eric Melbye
Tru is the story of Gertrude Hayes, a lifelong social outcast living out her final days in a residential home. When Tru’s only genuine friend gives her a journal, the restless ghosts of her past immediately close in on her, demanding that she confront the memories she so desperately wants to leave behind. Deeply afraid, Tru begins to write.
Interweaving imagination and observation, Tru journeys through recollections of loss, longing, love and isolation, as she attempts to rediscover hope and forge a new sense of self. With humour and grace, her startling narratives and poignant meditations explore patterns of life and destiny, and the role of stories in our consciousness, forming an exquisite account of a unique woman’s experience of the world.
Skilfully written, with a language that strikes the major notes of our own timeless and wordless experiences, Tru is an utterly tragic memoir, and offers a fragile prayer for us all.
“A well crafted and touching tale that is sure to hook the reader from the opening line right down to the closing paragraphs.”
- The Compulsive Reader, www.compulsivereader.com
“Tru´s story, in its mixture of remembering and imagining, is told with a humour and understanding which captivate. Melbye´s writing is honest in a way which makes the title Tru so apposite, despite being fiction. The threading of recollection and invention in Tru´s narrative creates an emotional honesty, which even an autobiography would rarely achieve. And there are also many beautiful images; I liked: ‘She was like a shard of broken glass, beautiful and dangerous and hardly there.’”
- Simon Thomas, ‘Stuck In A Book’ blog
´A poignant and beautifully crafted memoir´
– Bookgroup.Info
“Once I started ‘Tru’ I was hooked in and read it quite rapidly. I found it probably the best written book I´ve read this year. The viewpoint of an elderly lady in a care home is an unusual and interesting one, as is a narrator who considers herself to be a bad person. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and I´ve recommended it to my book club. If Eric Melbye writes another book I will definitely buy it.”
- Steph, a reader from Manchester
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