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Untitled Wil Eav (BO 2)(Pb)
Will Eaves
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Description for Untitled Wil Eav (BO 2)(Pb)
Paperback. Family: sometimes heaven, sometimes hell, never what it seems Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250.
The Alldens live in a ramshackle house in suburban Bath. Don and Emily have four children: confident Liz, satirical Clive, shy Lotte, and Benjamin, the late arrival. Together they take the usual knocks, go to work, go abroad, go to university, go to pieces. Don and Emily stick it out, their strong marriage tested by experience and frustrated by love for Clive, the ardent boxing fan at odds with himself, their special child. But then ordinary is special, too, as the Alldens will discover thirty years later when Emily falls ill and her children come home ... Read more
The Alldens live in a ramshackle house in suburban Bath. Don and Emily have four children: confident Liz, satirical Clive, shy Lotte, and Benjamin, the late arrival. Together they take the usual knocks, go to work, go abroad, go to university, go to pieces. Don and Emily stick it out, their strong marriage tested by experience and frustrated by love for Clive, the ardent boxing fan at odds with himself, their special child. But then ordinary is special, too, as the Alldens will discover thirty years later when Emily falls ill and her children come home ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Publication date
2013
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330418775
SKU
V9780330418775
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99-50
About Will Eaves
Will Eaves was born in Bath in 1967. He is the author of two other novels, The Oversight (2001, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award) and Nothing To Be Afraid Of (2005, shortlisted for the Society of Authors' Encore Award), and a collection of poems, Sound Houses (2011). For many years he was the arts editor of the Times ... Read more
Reviews for Untitled Wil Eav (BO 2)(Pb)
`Funny, kind and unsparingly honest' Patrick Gale `This is a novel that should resonate with every contemporary family' Sunday Times `Intricately rendered snapshots of family life through the years . . . Eaves has a real gift for nuanced observation' Observer `Beautiful and extraordinary' The Times