Author: Rebecca Wait 72304
Title: I'm sorry you feel that way. 'If you liked Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss, you'll love this novel' - Good Housekeeping
Description: Quercus Publishing. Paperback. Pp: 390. From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships.For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide and conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything.As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments. ISBN: 9781529420456. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781529420456
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Title: I'm sorry you feel that way. 'If you liked Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss, you'll love this novel' - Good Housekeeping
Description: Quercus Publishing. Paperback. Pp: 390. From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships.For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide and conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything.As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments. ISBN: 9781529420456. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781529420456
Price: EUR 12.50 = appr. US$ 13.59 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 3008606
- Book number: 3008606
See more books from our catalog: Literatuur