The Widow's Tale - Couverture rigide

Jackson, Mick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1408486571 ISBN 13 : 9781408486573

Editeur : Windsor, 2010

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A newly-widowed woman has done a runner. She just jumped in her car, abandoned her (very nice) house in north London and kept on driving until she reached the Norfolk coast. Now she’s rented a tiny cottage and holed herself away there, if only to escape the ceaseless sympathy and insincere concern. She’s not quite sure, but thinks she may be having a bit of a breakdown. Or perhaps this sense of dislocation is perfectly normal in the circumstances. All she knows is that she can’t sleep and may be drinking a little more than she ought to. But as her story unfolds we discover that her marriage was far from perfect. That it was, in fact, full of frustration and disappointment, as well as one or two significant secrets, and that by running away to this particular village she might actually be making her own personal pilgrimage. By turns elegiac and highly comical, The Widow’s Tale conjures up this most defiantly unapologetic of narrators as she begins to pick over the wreckage of her life and decide what has real value and what she should leave behind.

Revue de presse

`Jackson's widow, with her tart observations about life and men, is great company. Like a glass of spicy red wine, this is a book to swig back and enjoy.' --Daily Mail

`Likeable, believable and often funny ... the book is about coping with the everyday rather than the miraculous. Perhaps it is all the braver for it.' --Daily Telegraph

'A wonderfully observant character portrait that veers between the side-splitting and the heartbreaking.' --Sunday Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Windsor
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408486571
• ISBN 13: 9781408486573
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible