Falling Short
The fresh, funny and life-affirming debut novel
$32.67
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
5 June 2019
Summary
‘Funny, engaging and beautifully written’ M. L. Stedman
Sometimes getting it wrong is the only way to get it right …
Frances Pilgrim’s father went missing when she was five, and ever since all sorts of things have been going astray: car keys, promotions, a series of underwhelming and unsuitable boyfriends … Now here she is, thirty-bloody-nine, teaching Shakespeare to rowdy sixth formers and still losing things.
But she has a much more pressing problem. Her mother, whos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473669611 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473669618 |
| Author: | Lex Coulton |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 5 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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Taking up the mantle of acute, humane observation from Muriel Spark, Falling Short is funny, engaging and beautifully written. A really refreshing read
Taking up the mantle of acute, humane observation from Muriel Spark, Falling Short is funny, engaging and beautifully written. A really refreshing read - M. L. Stedman
A remarkable book: warm, moving and very funny - Jess KiddA vastly enjoyable two-hander that smuggles a sober exploration of grief and regret under a classroom comedy that follows two shambling, wine- sozzled teachers, Frances and Jackson - Daily MailAbout The Author
Lex Coulton
Lex Coulton studied English, and later Creative Writing, at Oxford. She spent fourteen years teaching English in secondary schools before taking a sabbatical year in Paris, to focus on her writing. She has recently been awarded the Literature Works First Page Prize (2015) and the Thresholds International Feature Writing Prize (2016), and her short fiction is due to appear this year in the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, the literary magazine Shooter and the London Journal of Fiction. Lex grew up in Herefordshire, and has recently returned to live there with her husband, John, and their dogs Bazil and Sadie.
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