Divorcing Jack

Colin Bateman

ISBN 10: 0006479030 / ISBN 13: 9780006479031

Published by Harper Collins, UK, 1995

About this Item

A fine unread 1st impression of a Paperback Original, Signed by the Author on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 001021

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Divorcing Jack
• Publisher: Harper Collins, UK
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006479030
• ISBN 13: 9780006479031
• Binding: Original Wraps
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife Patricia an 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 Margaret is murdered. This novel won the 1994 Betty Trask Prize.

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.