'Full of beauty, pain and joy, I loved Jack & Bet' - Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us
Even the longest marriages have their secrets . . .
Jack Chalmers is a man of few words, married to a woman of many. He and Bet have been together for seventy years - almost a lifetime - and happily so, for the most part.
All Jack and Bet want is to enjoy the time they have left together, in the flat they have tried to make their home. Their son Tommy has other ideas: he wants them to live somewhere with round-the-clock care, hot meals, activities. Bet thinks they can manage just fine.
When they strike up an unlikely friendship with Marinela, a young Romanian woman, Bet thinks she has found the perfect solution - one that could change Marinela's life as well as theirs. But this means revisiting an old love affair, and confronting a long-buried secret she has kept hidden from everyone, even Jack, for many years.
Tender, moving and beautifully told, Sarah Butler's Jack & Bet is an unforgettable novel about love and loss, the joys and regrets of a long marriage, and the struggle to find a place to call home.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509898152
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 384 g
Dimensions: 223 x 142 x 33 mm
Jack and Bet by Sarah Butler.
I didn’t really know what to expect from this book but it was utterly delightful. It tells the story of Jack and Bet, a working class couple from the Elephant & Castle area of...
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Thank you to the publishers for this review copy, let's skip over how long this has sat in my to be read pile though please...
Finally picked it up this morning in lockdown 3 to read and I have just flown through...
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Jack and Bet is a beautiful read about three wonderful characters who really touched me with their stories. Jack and Bet have been married for seventy years, they have overcome problems along the way, a secret love... More
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