A wonderful, richly textured story focusing on several generations of one family through a year of their lives. At the heart of the novel is Lily: sister of Marie (three children, no husband) and Rory (doesn't want to come home for Christmas as he knows it will all be platform kisses and catch-up conversations); wife of Art (cool and laid back, everything Lily would like to be and just isn't); daughter of Mattie and John (in domestic chaos - have just learned that their pensions will be about half of what they anticipated and that they face penury in their old age); granddaughter of Grandpa (lives a secret Internet life posing as a much younger man). It's when Grandpa accidentally pops the TV remote in the post that the family's troubles really begin...
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She is a fine observer of the nuances of family life - the rivalries and jealousy, the struggles for power and affection. She evokes atmosphere and place powerfully... Her characters are warm and lovably eccentric (Scotland on Sunday)
Descrizione del libro:
A warm, perceptive and drily humorous new novel from the wonderful Isla Dewar, who gets under the skin of both her characters and her readers
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- EditoreHeadline Review
- Data di pubblicazione2004
- ISBN 10 0755300815
- ISBN 13 9780755300815
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine352
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