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Bernardine Bishop - Unexpected Lessons in Love, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Unexpected Lessons in Love

'Frank, courageous and entertaining. I felt better for reading it' -- Margaret Drabble

Av Bernardine Bishop

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Beskrivning
'Frank, courageous and entertaining. I felt better for reading it' - Margaret Drabble'A delightful and humane novel' - The TimesShortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel AwardCecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. But when her son Ian turns up on her doostep with the unexpected consequence of a brief fling, she feels she has no choice but to take the baby into her life. Cephas's arrival is the latest of many challenges Cecilia has to face. There is the matter of her cancer, for a start, an illness shared with her novelist friend Helen. Then there is Helen herself, whose observations of Cecilia's family life reveal a somewhat ambivalent attitude to motherhood. Meanwhile Tim, Cecilia's husband, is taking self-effacement to extremes, and Ian, unless he gets on with it, will throw away his best chance at happiness.Cecilia, however, does not have to manage alone. In a convent in Hastings sits Sister Diana Clegg who holds the ties that bind everyone not only to each other, but to strangers as yet unmet. As events unfold and as the truth about Cephas is revealed, we are invited to look closely at madness, guilt, mortal dread and the gift of resilience. No one will remain unchanged.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-07-04
  • Mått: 136 x 197 x 26 mm
  • Vikt: 276 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 400
  • Förlag: Hodder & Stoughton
  • ISBN: 9781848547841
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Costa Book of the Year 2013 (UK)
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The great-granddaughter of the poet Alice Meynell, Bernardine Bishop was the youngest witness in the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960. After writing two early novels, she taught in a London comprehensive school for ten years and then had a distinguished career as a psychotherapist, during which she brought up her two sons. Cancer forced her retirement in 2010 and she returned to her first love, fiction. Bernardine Bishop lived in London with her husband, until her death in July 2013.

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'This is one of the most enjoyable books I've read in years. I found it completely gripping. The carefully but unobtrusively structured plot (involving adoption, DNA and paternity) is domestic but with a wide reach; it is played out against a backdrop of world events. On reflection, I have never before read a book which confronts a serious and almost unmentionable illness with such lightness of touch. It's happy and it's cheering, with a beautiful warmth to it, achieved without a moment of sentimentality. I loved it'

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