The Promise of Happiness
'Extraordinarily bold ... a funny, angry, moving novel'
(Sprache: Englisch)
A reissued edition of the Richard & Judy bestseller
A reissued edition of the Richard & Judy bestseller
A reissued edition of the Richard & Judy bestseller
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A reissued edition of the Richard & Judy bestseller
A reissued edition of the Richard & Judy bestseller
A reissued edition of the Richard & Judy bestseller
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A reissued edition of the 'bitingly funny and fiercely observed' Richard & Judy bestseller'A compelling and candid portrait of a family in crisis' Mail on Sunday'Impressive ... an intelligent, generous and unsentimental take on an English middle-class family' TelegraphCharles Judd meanders round his local Cornish beach, contemplating the turns his life has taken. His wife Daphne struggles hopelessly with the latest fish recipe, trying to keep something in her life under control.Two of their children are keeping it all together - just. But they are all still recovering from the shock of the prodigal daughter, Juliet, being imprisoned in New York State for her part in an art theft.Since then, Charles appears to have lost his entire family. Now Juliet is being released, the family is about to be reunited and the wounds her imprisonment has caused are being re-opened.
Autoren-Porträt von Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, the acclaimed White Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven By Water, Other People's Money, winner of the Spears Novel of the Year, Lion Heart and, most recently, the acclaimed Up Against the Night. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London. @justincartwrig1
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Justin Cartwright
- 2010, 336 Seiten, Maße: 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408807076
- ISBN-13: 9781408807071
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.04.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
'A compelling and candid portrait of a family in crisis' Mail on Sunday
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