The Answer to Everything - Couverture rigide

Kennard, Luke

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0008444501 ISBN 13 : 9780008444501

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

A heartbreakingly moving and hilariously funny novel about marriage, parenting, love, desire and betrayal.

‘Captivating’ Ruth Jones, author of Us Three

‘Tremendous’ William Boyd author of Any Human Heart

‘Funny, wry, unsettling’ Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall

Emily should be happy. She has a nice husband (even if they rarely speak to each other, let alone sleep in the same bed), two little boys she loves (even if a full night’s sleep is a distant memory) – and now, a brand-new house in which they can live out all of the bourgeois fantasies she knows she should be ashamed of. But still she aches for something more.
 
Enter Alathea and Elliott, their new neighbours, and also parents of two young boys. Alathea is intimidatingly confident and beautiful, but also disarmingly open and friendly. And Elliott … Elliott is intriguing. Dishevelled, talented, charming and a little lost, he seems as fascinated by Emily as she is by him, and soon their friendship has reached an intensity neither of them seem able to control.
 
As riotously funny as it is painfully moving, this is a novel about disappointment and yearning; about parenting and growing up; and the search for love, meaning and connection.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Luke Kennard is the author of six collections of poetry and one other novel, The Transition. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2007. In 2014 he was selected by the Poetry Book Society as one of the Next Generation Poets. He lectures at the University of Birmingham.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0008444501
• ISBN 13: 9780008444501
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible