Divorcing Jack

Bateman, Colin

ISBN 10: 0006510639 / ISBN 13: 9780006510635

Published by Harper Collins Publishers, 1998

About this Item

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Seller Inventory # GOR002137998

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Divorcing Jack
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006510639
• ISBN 13: 9780006510635
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Fast, funny, scary. A truly up-to-the-minute novel set in Belfast from a brilliant new writer. Now a major BBC/Scala film starring David Thewlis and Robert Lindsay.

Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then, terrifyingly, Margaret is murdered. Is it because of her liaison with Dan? Is it because she was not exactly who she claimed to be? Is it the IRA? A Protestant extremist group? A jealous lover? Before long, Dan is a target himself, running as fast as he can in a race against time to crack the mystery and save his marriage.

Crackling with the sharpest dialogue to be found outside of a Roddy Doyle novel, Divorcing Jack is a novel to be relished from a major new talent.

About the Author

Colin Bateman was born in Northern Ireland in 1962 and educated at Bangor Grammar School before joining the ‘County Down Spectator’, where he became the deputy editor until 1996. In 1990 he received a Journalist’s Fellowship to Oxford University for his reports from Uganda and has received a Northern Ireland Press Award for his weekly satirical column. He won the Betty Trask Award in 1994.