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Paperback 336 Pages
Published: 19/04/2010
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Charles Judd meanders round his local Cornish beach, contemplating the turns his life has taken. His wife Daphne struggles hopelessly with the latest fish recipe, trying to keep something in her life under control. Two of their children are keeping it all together - just. But they are all still recovering from the shock of the prodigal daughter, Juliet, being imprisoned in New York State for her part in an art theft. Since then, Charles appears to have lost his entire family. Now Juliet is being released, the family is about to be reunited and the wounds her imprisonment has caused are being re-opened.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408807071
Number of pages: 336
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

'A compelling and candid portrait of a family in crisis' Mail on Sunday 'Impressive ... an intelligent, generous and unsentimental take on an English middle-class family' Daily Telegraph 'Extraordinarily bold ... This is a funny, angry, moving novel' Independent 'Bitingly funny and fiercely observed ... The savage irony and probing moral questioning nicely balance each other out, and as an exploration of contemporary Englishness it is unsurpassed' New York Times Book Review

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“The Promise of a Great Book”

I found this book rather tedious initially. Its central characters being a retired accountant and his wife who have moved to Cornwall to enjoy the simpler life, and their art history graduate daughter, it threatened... More

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