A very good read indeed MATT HAIGTerrific, pageturning, slyly funny INDIA KNIGHTAs satisfying a novel as I have read in years SARAH PERRYOne of the most brilliant and entertaining novelists ALISON LURIEQuentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, cant afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they cant afford to go on living in London instead, they must downsize and move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon. Arrogant and adulterous, Quentin cant understand why Lottie is so angry devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded.Mud, mice and quarrels are one thing but why is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their unappealing new home? The beauty of the landscape is ravishing, yet it conceals a dark side involving poverty, revenge, abuse and violence which will rise up to threaten them.Sally Verity, happily married but unhappily childless knows a different side to country life, as both a Health Visitor and a sheep farmers wife and when Lotties innocent teenage son Xan gets a zerohours contract at a local pie factory, he sees yet another. At the end of their year, the lives of all will be changed for ever. A suspenseful black comedy, this is a rich, compassionate and enthralling novel in its depiction of the English countryside, and the potentially lethal interplay between money and marriage.A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING...

Binding: Paperback;464 pages; Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group; Classification: FA; Weight: 480 g; Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 29

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