The Promise Of Happiness - Softcover

Cartwright, Justin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747577064 ISBN 13: 9780747577065

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2005

Synopsis

Charles 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.

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Review:

'A compelling and candid portrait of a family in crisis' -- Mail on Sunday

'A special treat: as entertaining as it is thought-provoking. It confirms his status as one of our foremost novelists' -- Daily Mail

'A storming piece of work, the equal of anything published on this side of the Atlantic this year' -- Independent on Sunday

'A touching, beautifully observed novel written with precision and sympathy' -- Literary Review

'Extraordinarily bold ... this is a funny, angry, moving novel ... brilliant' -- Independent

About the Author:

Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers and the acclaimed White Lightning which was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa, and now lives in Islington, London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0747577064
• ISBN 13: 9780747577065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 307