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Jack's funeral is the third in his family in a year. Anna, pregnant with his child, stubbornly refuses to accept that his death was suicide. Bewildered and confused she sells up their flat and flees to her husband's childhood home in search of answers ... back to Barkwood where she first met Jack. Her determination to unearth the truth about Jack's miserable childhood brings her dangerously close to the edge. What was so terrible that Jack couldn't tell her? And why do the two brothers left seem to hate each other so much? No-one will give up the family secrets. Then Anna remembers a row between Jack's parents she overheard one summer when she was an impressionable adolescent desperate for Max's attention ...
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Jack's funeral is the third in his family in a year. Anna, pregnant with his child, stubbornly refuses to accept that his death was suicide. Her determination to unearth the truth brings Anna dangerously close to the edge. What was so terrible that Jack couldn't tell her?
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Tam Hoskyns has worked in TV and theatre for the last ten years. Her first novel, THE TALKING CURE, is also published by Penguin.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0140261516
- ISBN 13 9780140261516
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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Book Description Paper. Condition: VG++. First Thus. Ann inherits a house, Barkwood House, when she's just discovered she's pregnant. The house seems like a refuge from life's events, BUT it has a gloomy past of its own. Plenty of occurrences of the `F.' word .The author's second book. 249 pages. Cond : Paper wrapper is blue and black w/ white lettering. Cover graphic is a very soft-focus close-up of a woman's face. One shallow crease. Light chips at mnost edges and corners. Colours bright, binding tight. No names but REM mark on bottom page edge. Clean, reading copy!! Quote (p. 49): " `It was a secret that only I knew. One that I used rather cunningly to my advantage, in order to get away. I suppose I should have told Jack too, shouldn't I ? Can you forgive me ? We never .' .". Seller Inventory # 003645
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