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The Street
Bernardine Bishop
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Description for The Street
Paperback. From the author of the acclaimed Unexpected Lessons in Love - 'impossible to recommend more highly' Guardian Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 33. Weight in Grams: 162.
There's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise . . . In the course of this delightful, quirky and perceptive novel an elderly soldier with incipient Alzheimer's saves the life of a remarkable child, a resting actor finds real purpose, a woman starved of love discovers it in an unexpected place and a beloved cat achieves immortality.
There's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise . . . In the course of this delightful, quirky and perceptive novel an elderly soldier with incipient Alzheimer's saves the life of a remarkable child, a resting actor finds real purpose, a woman starved of love discovers it in an unexpected place and a beloved cat achieves immortality.
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
161g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444789249
SKU
V9781444789249
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Bernardine Bishop
The great-granddaughter of the poet Alice Meynell, Bernardine Bishop was the youngest witness in the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960. After writing two early novels, she taught in a London comprehensive school for ten years and then had a distinguished career as a psychotherapist, during which she brought up her two sons. Cancer forced her retirement in 2010 and she ... Read more
Reviews for The Street
The Street is a hugely enjoyable little book that is just a joy.
Irish Examiner
She excels in excavating single moments to powerfully show the profound in the prosaic.
Observer, Paperback of the Week
Unexpected and exciting
Daily Mail
Lovely, surprising... filled with life and optimism and a wicked sense of comedy... deeply satisfying. ... Read more
Irish Examiner
She excels in excavating single moments to powerfully show the profound in the prosaic.
Observer, Paperback of the Week
Unexpected and exciting
Daily Mail
Lovely, surprising... filled with life and optimism and a wicked sense of comedy... deeply satisfying. ... Read more