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Description for Afterwards
Paperback. To love someone, need you know everything about them? When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. Both are still young and hopeful of each other, but each brings with them an emotional burden. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
To love someone, need you know everything about them?
When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. Both are still young and hopeful of each other, but each brings with them an emotional burden. Alice's family is full of absences and Joseph harbours an unspeakable secret from his time in the army in Northern Ireland.
When Alice's widowed grandfather begins to tell Joseph about his RAF experiences in 1950s Kenya, something still raw is tapped in Joseph; his reaction to the older man's unburdening of guilt is both unexpected and devastating ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099461777
SKU
KAC0001292
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Rachel Seiffert
The daughter of an Australian father and a German mother, Rachel Seiffert was born in Oxford and lives in London. She is the author the Booker-shortlisted novel The Dark Room and an acclaimed collection of short stories, Field Study. She was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young British' and one of 25 women writers to watch in the 'Orange ... Read more
Reviews for Afterwards
Masterful, delightfully controlled prose...This highly engaging novel continues to reveal itself long after it is read
Sunday Telegraph
Carefully unsentimental...remarkable...we are given the complicated substance of unadorned lives
Sunday Times
Compelling... A daring work, sure to gain her greater recognition..the portrait of the ex-soldier Joseph is as fine a depiction of a man in crisis as ... Read more
Sunday Telegraph
Carefully unsentimental...remarkable...we are given the complicated substance of unadorned lives
Sunday Times
Compelling... A daring work, sure to gain her greater recognition..the portrait of the ex-soldier Joseph is as fine a depiction of a man in crisis as ... Read more