Living the Dream
$53.36
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2019
Summary
Safe in their love, Tom and Naomi Barnes pursue their dream of family and prosperity as transplants to a London brimming with immigrants and opportunities. Tom works long hours for a super hedge fund and Naomi, while bringing up their boys, is commissioned by fellow prep school mum and immigrant Solange Wolf, to write her memoir. Solange’s story of survival and triumph, from the slums in Haiti to becoming an executive with a Fortune 500 company, and inter-racially married to an equally succes…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913090050 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1913090051 |
| Author: | Isabelle Dupuy |
| Publisher: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Imprint: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 162mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Jacaranda |
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A magnetic and affecting tale filled with both humor and pain, Living the Dream depicts the glamorous yet flawed lives of two immigrant women in pre and post Brexit London. This layered and captivating novel is at times out loud funny and other times heartbreaking, yet we are constantly charmed by its narrator and her muse, or rather her muses, which include Colombia, Haiti, England, and beyond. * Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory *
About The Author
Isabelle Dupuy
Isabelle Dupuy grew up in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, studied and lived in the USA and moved to London twenty years ago with a job in the City. She started writing when she became a mother. Living the Dream is her first novel.
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