Glasshopper - Couverture souple

Ashdown, Isabel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0954930975 ISBN 13 : 9780954930974

Editeur : Myriad Editions, 2009

Synopsis

Portsmouth, 1984. Thirteen-year-old Jake's world is unravelling as his father and older brother leave home, and his mother plunges into alcoholic freefall. Despite his turbulent home life, Jake is an irrepressible teenager and his troubled mother is not the only thing on his mind: there's the hi-fi he's saving up for, his growing passion for Greek mythology (and his pretty classics teacher), and the anticipation of brief visits to see his dad. When his parents reconcile, life finally seems to be looking up. Their first family holiday, announced over scampi and chips in the Royal Oak, promises to be the icing on the cake - until long-unspoken family secrets begin to surface. Isabel Ashdown's début novel tells a captivating story of family life, at once troubling, funny and joyous. Vividly bringing to life the gentility of a 1950s childhood, the free-spirited hedonism of the Sixties, and the urban domesticity of 1980s Portsmouth, this is an intimate, lyrical and deeply moving portrait of a family crumbling under the weight of past mistakes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Isabel Ashdown is the author of Flight; Hurry Up and Wait, which was listed as one of Amazon's Customer Favorites for Kindle in 2011; and Summer of '76. Isabel was 2013-14 Writer in Residence at the University of Brighton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Myriad Editions
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0954930975
• ISBN 13: 9780954930974
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible