Vanessa Jones

Twelve (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How should a young woman live now?

Lily is waiting, as ever, for the weekend, waiting to get out of the city, waiting for that ever-elusive, life-defining, climactic episode, the one that will 'explain to me everything that's gone before, and everything that's to come'.

She's been friends with the decisive Edward and the freewheeling Josh for years, and makes what progress she does by clinging on to them. She seeks a narrative for her life, a story to dress in, and embarks on a daring, blind romance that begins on a train with the mysterious Colin, but just as swiftly talks herself out of it, out of commitment. Meanwhile, next door, Shirley, a plainer, simpler woman, just gets on with things, caring for home, husband and baby, making strides, repeating cycles.

Will Lily reach her epiphany? Will she recognize it when it arrives? Will it really change her life? Does she even need one?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008228415
• Artikelnr.: 47177340

Autorenporträt

vanessa jones was born in 1970. This is her first book.

'A thoroughly intriguing novel studded with thoughtful and witty insights: I've never read a book before that contains both ecstasy tips and gardening tips. Jones' writing is measured and elegant, but there is an underlying panic here at the ridiculous business of being alive.' Arthur Smith

'Vanessa Jones frequently gives us passages of virtuoso writing. Comparisons can be invidious, but Twelve could be seen as a book narrated by a more intelligent, self-aware and literary Bridget Jones, with the journals of some of her close friends thrown in.' Peter Carty, Time Out