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Description for Home Leave
Paperback. A perceptive novel from our favourite chronicler of the dilemmas of modern family life Num Pages: 288 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208. Good copy with some shelf wear
Catherine and Caroline, Toby and Mark were globetrotting siblings: British 'diplo-brats', whose childhood homes lay in Italy or Israel, France or Washington DC - wherever their father was posted at the time. But all that was years ago. Now Catherine is approaching middle-age, married to a life of cheeseparing selflessness looking after young offenders on a chilly organic farm; Mark is a prim supermarket executive, Caroline a wealthy Kensington wife, and Toby - well, Toby is a problem. The joker in the pack. He always was. Amid growing tensions, marriage-fatigue and unspoken resentments, the ... Read more
Catherine and Caroline, Toby and Mark were globetrotting siblings: British 'diplo-brats', whose childhood homes lay in Italy or Israel, France or Washington DC - wherever their father was posted at the time. But all that was years ago. Now Catherine is approaching middle-age, married to a life of cheeseparing selflessness looking after young offenders on a chilly organic farm; Mark is a prim supermarket executive, Caroline a wealthy Kensington wife, and Toby - well, Toby is a problem. The joker in the pack. He always was. Amid growing tensions, marriage-fatigue and unspoken resentments, the ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340829882
SKU
KRA0011512
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Libby Purves
Libby Purves is a writer and also a broadcaster who has presented the talk programme Midweek on Radio 4 since 1984 and formerly presented Today. She is a main columnist on the Times and in 1999 was named the Granada "What the Papers Say" Columnist of the Year, and awarded a O.B.E for services to journalism. She lives in Suffolk ... Read more
Reviews for Home Leave
A feel-good novel ... hilarious ... humorous ... fabulously incisive
Independent
Purves' novel of ordinary lives is compelling, her perceptions are acute ... sophisticated and skilful
Daily Telegraph
Libby Purves' prose is clean, sharp and in touch with things that matter
Valerie Grove, The Times
Independent
Purves' novel of ordinary lives is compelling, her perceptions are acute ... sophisticated and skilful
Daily Telegraph
Libby Purves' prose is clean, sharp and in touch with things that matter
Valerie Grove, The Times