Lot's Wife - Softcover

Wakefield, Tom

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ISBN 10: 1852421525 ISBN 13: 9781852421526

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1989

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Henry Checket and Peggy Thurston have been forgotten by society. They spend their final years in an old people's home run by the domineering Veronica Fairhurst. Each brings with them a past life, of pleasures and regrets, that they neither want nor are able to forget. As their relationship develops, they each discover much about their true selves, including a shared inclination to rebellion. Steering a fine course between comedy and tragedy, Lot's Wife proceeds with verve and passion towards the unexpected dramas of its conclusion. Tom Wakefield's new novel will delight his readers, old acquaintances and newcomers alike. It is the work of a most gifted writer who, rare for today, loves and empathizes with his characters.

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Review:

It's refreshing to come across an English novelist who knows exactly what he's doing and does it resoundingly well. Wakefield's is a welcome return to simplicity of style and construction (Peter Ackroyd)

There can be no doubt that we are in the hands of a finely perceptive and sensitive writer (Hilary Bailey Guardian)

He manages to construct a character, ordinary and everyday on the outside, with a rich and individual interior...[exerting] much more control over events than is at first apparent, weaving a complex structure out of the simplest, most direct observations and intuitions (Alan Brien Sunday Times)

About the Author:

Tom Wakefield was born of a mining family in the Midlands. His previous books include a collection of short stories, Drifters, novels, Mates, The Discus Throwers and The Variety Artistes, and a childhood autobiography, Forties' Child, also published by Serpent's Tail. Tom Wakefield died in 1997.

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