The Promise of Happiness

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By the award Cartwright has been gaining a formidable literary itation, and each new book has only added to it. This one is a special treat: as entert ; It confirms his status as.A most novelists

Charles Judd meanders round his local Cornish beach, ¦ oontemplating the turns* his life has taken. At home, his.wife : with the latest fish recipe. Two ll^ thei^ cM aíl together - just. The third, Clíörles and Daphne's prodigal daughter Juliét, is being l wimm tó • Charles and Daphne's prodigal daughter Juliét, is being released from prison in New York after a sentence for art theft. This is the day, on the face of it so ordinary, on which Justrn Cartwright's explosive növel opens, as all five members of the family try to come to terms with the return of Juliét, and their deepest thoughts and darkest secrets are laid bare. 'A storming piece of work, the equal of anything published on fchis%.side of the Atlantic this year ... Such is the puli of . : öirtwright's iiarrative, the curious... Tovább

Fülszöveg

By the award Cartwright has been gaining a formidable literary itation, and each new book has only added to it. This one is a special treat: as entert ; It confirms his status as.A most novelists

Charles Judd meanders round his local Cornish beach, ¦ oontemplating the turns* his life has taken. At home, his.wife : with the latest fish recipe. Two ll^ thei^ cM aíl together - just. The third, Clíörles and Daphne's prodigal daughter Juliét, is being l wimm tó • Charles and Daphne's prodigal daughter Juliét, is being released from prison in New York after a sentence for art theft. This is the day, on the face of it so ordinary, on which Justrn Cartwright's explosive növel opens, as all five members of the family try to come to terms with the return of Juliét, and their deepest thoughts and darkest secrets are laid bare. 'A storming piece of work, the equal of anything published on fchis%.side of the Atlantic this year ... Such is the puli of . : öirtwright's iiarrative, the curious éxpertise that he fcrings v ^ to so many parts of huniad thé sense of : authority, that the reader is éternally seduced' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Cartwright beautifully and inexorably constructs a tragedy of noble reticence and oddness, in which even hope has a changeling aspect' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Brilliant, moving ... This haunting növel of English family life underlines our basic humán hunger for happiness' LITERARY REVIEW Vissza