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‘The Offering’, by Grace McCleen A coming of age story exploring the nature of belief, time and memory, sanity and madness Share on twitter (opens new window)Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Lyrically evoking the rhythms and beauty of the natural world, The Offering is a novel taut with foreboding, a haunting tale of misplaced faith and a heartbreakingly damaged psyche. (more) all /5(2).  · The Offering by Grace McCleen – a vivid insight into mental illness. A psychiatric patient rebels against the men who play God – with moving results. Dark lyricism . Grace McCleen Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

In Grace was writer-in-residence at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, producing a collection of poetry. In she worked at the Centre for New Writing at Manchester University, giving one-to-one tutorials and seminars to M.A. and PhD students. More recently she has been offering private mentoring to creative writing students. (age ) Occupation. Author. Notable works. The Land of Decoration (), The Professor of Poetry () Notable awards. The Desmond Elliot Prize , The Betty Trask Award Grace McCleen (born ) is a British novelist. She has won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Betty Trask Award and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Grace McCleen's third novel, The Offering, returns to the territory of her award-winning debut, The Land of Decoration, which announced her in as a significant talent, drawing praise from.

‘The Offering’, by Grace McCleen A coming of age story exploring the nature of belief, time and memory, sanity and madness Share on twitter (opens new window). Lyrically evoking the rhythms and beauty of the natural world, The Offering is a novel taut with foreboding, a haunting tale of misplaced faith and a heartbreakingly damaged psyche. (more) all members. I adored Grace McCleen's earlier novel The Land of Decoration, and The Offering similarly has as its protagonist a young girl growing up in relative isolation with religious fundamentalists, deeply confused about what she believes to be her relationship with God.