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The Friday Gospels
Jenn Ashworth
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Description for The Friday Gospels
Paperback. The tale of an English Mormon family and the day the cracks in their lives yawn into chasms, as savagely funny as it is tragic. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
It's Friday in the Leeke household, but this is no ordinary Friday and the Leekes are a little unusual: they are Lancastrian Mormons, and this evening their son Gary will return from 2 years as a missionary in Salt Lake City.
His mother is planning a celebratory dinner - with difficulty, since she's virtually housebound with an undiagnosed, embarrassing condition. What she doesn't realise is that the rest of the family - her meek husband, disturbed oldest son, and teenage daughter - have other plans for the evening, each involving drastic and irrevocable action.
As the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444707748
SKU
V9781444707748
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Jenn Ashworth
Jenn Ashworth is the author of the novels A Kind of Intimacy, which won a Betty Trask Award, Cold Light, The Friday Gospels, Fell and Ghosted: A Love Story. In 2011, she was featured on BBC Two's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. She has also written a memoir-in-essays, Notes Made While Falling, which ... Read more
Reviews for The Friday Gospels
Utterly, compulsively readable, [it] could be this award-winning young author's best novel yet.
The Sunday Times
A serious, distinctive and eminently readable story of faith and family; about the demands of the world and the desires of the individual.
Independent on Sunday
Ashworth's most confident work yet and one that strengthens her reputation as an author ... Read more
The Sunday Times
A serious, distinctive and eminently readable story of faith and family; about the demands of the world and the desires of the individual.
Independent on Sunday
Ashworth's most confident work yet and one that strengthens her reputation as an author ... Read more