Left and Leaving - Softcover

Jo Verity

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906784981 ISBN 13: 9781906784980

Publisher: Honno Welsh Women's Press, 2014

Synopsis

Fifth novel from Richard and Judy Award winner Jo Verity, author of Sweets from Morocco a 'pitch perfect evocation of childhood and sibling relationships' Marcel Theroux

Australian ex-pat Gil is on a grey gap-year working in the London hospital to which Vivian brings Irene for treatment; together they try to bring calm where terror reigns. Irene is thrilled with her new friends, they less so with her ongoing interest in their lives. Gil has a girlfriend, who lives in the same building with her two children, and a family back home. Thirty-something Vivian has a high-flying boyfriend and a time-consuming job which may be about to transfer to Germany. But they keep finding reasons to spend time together in the run up to Christmas. Marooned in Tooting by a sudden snowstorm, Vivian and Gil are forced to spend the holiday confronting secrets and facing up to responsibilities they ve been complacent about for too long. And still in the background is Irene, intent on filling the holes in her life...

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Review:

Praise for Jo Verity

'Humane and subtle, a keenly observed exploration of the way we live now...' - Stephen May, author of Life, Death, Prizes

'pitch perfect evocation of childhood and sibling relationships' - Marcel Theroux, The Daily Telegraph

'A richly detailed and absorbing narrative journey in the company of two completely believable and believably complicated characters.' - Andrew Cowan

'A wonderfully wise portrayal of intriguingly troubled lives.' -- - Suzannah Dunn

About the Author:

Jo Verity has had short stories, poems and articles published or broadcast on Radio 4. She won the Richard & Judy Short Story prize in 2003, the "Western Mail" short story competition, was shortlisted for the Asham Award, and was a runner-up in the 2008 Mslexia International Poetry Competition and a finalist in the Mslexia International Short Story Competition 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Honno Welsh Women's Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1906784981
• ISBN 13: 9781906784980
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 374