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The Promise of Happiness

The Promise of Happiness( )
Author: Cartwright, Justin
ISBN:978-0-7475-7034-9
Publication Date:Aug 2004
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $49.95
Book Description:

Charles Judd stands peeing on small molluscs on a Cornish Beach. His wife Daphne is struggling with a Rick Stein recipe in the kitchen of a lime-washed house nearby. Their youngest daughter Sophie is hovering on the set of an advertising shoot in a studio in London. Charlie, their son, unlocks a rented Chevrolet on an Alamo lot in Buffalo-Niagara. And Juliet, their oldest child, sits in her cell, her few possessions packed, ready for...
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Pages:0
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.6 x 24.2 cm
Book Weight:0.65 Kilograms
Author Biography
Cartwright, Justin (Author)
Justin Cartwright was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1945. He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford. Before becoming an author, he worked in advertising and in film and documentary directing. He wrote 13 novels including Interior, Look at It This Way, White Lightning, Half in Love, The Promise of Happiness, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven by Water, Other People's Money, Lion Heart, and Up Against the Night. In Every Face I Meet won a Commonwealth Writers Prize and Leading the Cheers won the Whitbread Novel Award. He also wrote three non-fiction books entitled Not Yet Home, This Secret Garden, and Oxford Revisited. He died on December 3, 2018 at the age of 73.

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