The Promise of Happiness: 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century

Author(s): Justin Cartwright

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Charles Judd meanders round his local Cornish beach, contemplating the turns his life has taken. At home, his wife Daphne struggles hopelessly with the latest fish recipe. Two of their children are keeping it all together - just. The third, the prodigal daughter Juliet, is being released from prison in New York after a sentence for art theft. This is the day, on the face of it so ordinary, on which Justin Cartwright's explosive novel opens, as all five members of the family try to come to terms with the return of Juliet, and their deepest thoughts and darkest secrets are laid bare.

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Shortlisted for Richard and Judy's Book Club and winner of the Hawthornden Prize Published as part of the Bloomsbury 21st Birthday Celebrations Includes reading group guide Cartwright has previously been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Novel Award 1998

Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers and the acclaimed White Lightning which was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa, and now lives in Islington, London.

General Fields

  • : 9780747589983
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 02 January 2007
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Justin Cartwright
  • : Paperback
  • : 21st birthday celebratory ed
  • : 336
  • : Modern fiction