You Don't Have to be Good - Couverture rigide

Broadbent, Sabrina

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701183942 ISBN 13 : 9780701183943

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2009

Synopsis

Bea is in her late forties, has a dead-end job with the Council in Cambridge, and is married to Frank, a feckless would-be writer with extra-mural distractions. Bea's successful sister, Katharine, the one who always worked hard, is a consultant paediatrician with two children (nerdy, nice twelve-year-old Adrian and difficult, funny teenage Laura) whom Bea has minded off-and-on since they were small. One morning Bea simply disappears. Her work mates are concerned when the normally reliable Bea doesn't turn up; her husband is suspected of foul play; her uptight sister becomes increasingly emotional and starts to unravel. Only the kids seem quietly, genuinely upset. The police dig up Frank's patio; Katharine finds she can't really function without the sister she's taken for granted; the children, more practically, check websites. As time goes by, though, the Bureau of Mispers. doesn't hold out much hope. Bea, it emerges, has history which her nearest and dearest know little about, and things don't turn out quite as they might have liked or expected. You Don't Have to be Good looks at what happens when a woman reaches the point where being good is no longer an option.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sabrina Broadbent's debut novel, Descent, won the W.H. Smith Raw Talent Award. She used to teach English at a comprehensive school in North London, and now works with FILMCLUB, which works with teachers to set up and support free after-school film clubs in schools throughout the UK. She lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701183942
• ISBN 13: 9780701183943
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible