This is Paradise
This is Paradise
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Zusammenfassung
Family: sometimes heaven, sometimes hell, never what it seems
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This is Paradise by Will Eaves
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 to say goodbye. Their unforgettable story is an intimate record of survival that is clear-eyed, funny and deeply moving.
‘Beautiful and extraordinary’ The Times
‘Intricately rendered snapshots of family life through the years. . Eaves has a real gift for nuanced observation’ Observer
‘This is a novel that should resonate with every contemporary family’ Sunday Times
‘Funny, kind and unsparingly honest’ Patrick Gale
‘Intricately rendered snapshots of family life through the years. . Eaves has a real gift for nuanced observation’ Observer
‘This is a novel that should resonate with every contemporary family’ Sunday Times
‘Funny, kind and unsparingly honest’ Patrick Gale
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 Literary Supplement. He now teaches at the University of Warwick.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330418775 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330418777 |
| Titel | This is Paradise |
| Autor | Will Eaves |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Pan Macmillan |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2013-01-17 |
| Seitenanzahl | 304 |
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