The Body in the Clouds - Ashley Hay

The Body in the Clouds

By: Ashley Hay

Paperback | 1 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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What if you looked up and out of the corner of your eye you saw something so marvellous, so extraordinary, that it transformed time and space forever? An extraordinary, luminous debut novel that weaves together three lives each altered forever when they look up and see the body in the clouds.

What if you looked up at just the right moment and saw - out of the corner of your eye - something unexpected? What if it was something so marvellous, so extraordinary, that it transformed time and space forever? The Body in the Clouds tells the story of one extraordinary moment - a man falling from the sky, and surviving - and of three men who see it, in different ways and different times, as they stand on the same piece of land. An astronomer in the late 1700s, a bridgeworker in the 1930s, an expatriate banker returning home in the early 21st century: all three are transformed by one magical event. All are searching for the same thing: how to understand what it means to call a place home, and how be able to tell when you get there.

The Body in the Clouds is a luminous novel about the power of story: the stories that define who and where we are. And the stories we tell - and have told, and will tell - for the people we love.

About The Author

Ashley Hay is the author of four books of non-fiction - The Secret: The strange marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron and Gum: The story of eucalypts and their champions, and Herbarium and Museum with the visual artist Robyn Stacey. A former literary editor of The Bulletin, her essays and short stories have also appeared in anthologies and journals including Brothers and Sisters, The Monthly, Heat and The Griffith Review. The Body in the Clouds is her first novel.

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