Divorcing Jack by Colin Bateman
Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife Patricia an appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then Margaret is murdered. This novel won the 1994 Betty Trask Prize.Colin Bateman was born in Northern Ireland in 1962 and educated at Bangor Grammar School before joining the ‘County Down Spectator’, where he became the deputy editor until 1996. In 1990 he received a Journalist’s Fellowship to Oxford University for his reports from Uganda and has received a Northern Ireland Press Award for his weekly satirical column. He won the Betty Trask Award in 1994.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006479031 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006479030 |
| Title | Divorcing Jack |
| Author | Colin Bateman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1995-01-23 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of Betty Trask Awards 1994, Winner of Betty Trask Award 1994 |
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