Summary
The critically acclaimed bestseller from the number one bestselling author of Five Days, The Moment and The Pursuit of Happiness. This bestselling novel is a compelling exploration of post-natal depression.Sally Goodchild is everything you’d expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist - independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo. After a passionate but uneasy romance, Sally’s life is turned u…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099415381 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099415380 |
| Author: | Douglas Kennedy |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2004 |
| Weight: | 351g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 30mm |
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As it gathered pace… I found my heart beating faster. I cannot remember a more compulsive book… I am bowled over by the art of the novelist * Daily Telegraph *Kennedy knows how to keep the pages turning…A pacy, absorbing and intelligent story * Elizabeth Buchan, The Times *Excellent … The pace is thriller-like, so cancel all engagements for the duration * Good Housekeeping *Writing in the first person as a woman, [Kennedy] pulls off a bold imaginative transformation that I find enthralling and persuasive * Jonathan Raban *His impressive achievement is… his narrator Sally, whose turbulent emotions he conveys with an unusual depth of understanding * Times Literary Supplement *A gripping novel of love, destiny and lives falling apart * Mail on Sunday *An exceptionally powerful study of motherhood as nightmare, and a first-rate courtroom thriller, displaying all Kennedy’s flair for plotting * Sunday Times *A compelling emotional rollercoaster of a novel * Woman & Home *It is an exceptionally powerful study of motherhood as nightmare, and a first-rate court-room thriller * The Times *
About The Author
Douglas Kennedy
Douglas Kennedy’s previous twelve novels include the critically acclaimed bestsellers The Big Picture, The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship and The Moment. He is also the author of three highly-praised travel books. The Big Picture was filmed with Romain Duris and Catherine Deneuve; The Woman in the Fifth with Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas.His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. In 2007 he was awarded the French decoration of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2009 the inaugural Grand Prix de Figaro. Born in Manhattan in 1955, he has two children and currently divides his time between London, Paris, Berlin, Maine and New York.
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