Wait for Me, Jack
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Sandstone Press Ltd
Published:19th Jan '17
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A Sunday Times top summer read.
In Wait for Me, Jack, V.S. Pritchett prize winning author Addison Jones serves romance fans a rich and honest insight of a 6-decade marriage: the exhilaration, the dysfunction, and the everlasting love that holds it all together.
In Wait for Me, Jack, V.S. Pritchett prize winning author Addison Jones serves Romance fans a rich and honest insight of a 6-decade marriage: the exhilaration, the dysfunction, and the everlasting love that holds it all together.
San Francisco, 1952.
Swimming eagerly in the possibility of post-war freedom, Jack and Milly marry, hoping to seize their corner of the American Dream and blissfully unaware of what life has in store. As life rolls into the modern age, so do they, clinging to the spark they once held as they meander through life’s fortunes and failures.
The Times Top Summer ReadWait For Me, Jack cascades backwards through the lives of Jack and Milly and their 63 year marriage. Each chapter is an honest dissection of their relationship, revealing what makes people stay - despite everything.
Intelligent, moving and captivating, award-winning author Cynthia Rogerson (under pen name Addison Jones) sheds light on some harsh truths of love and marriage in a novel equal parts joyful and turbulent, crafting a ‘deceptively casual, episodic novel’ that is ‘uplifting and astute’ (The Sunday Times).
‘Rogerson is a master of fresh and sparky writing.’– The Guardian
'Spanning 60 years, Jones's deceptively casual, episodic novel is a warm-hearted dissection of a dysfunctional marriage: disappointing affairs, unfulfilled careers, chaotic children, incessant sniping and growing differences. Uplifting and astute, this should save marriages.-Sunday Times; 'A frank, earthy and drily amusing portrait of a marriage -The Herald; 'Brilliantly observed and often very funny.-Morag Joss; 'A lesson, not in how to love, but how to make love last.-Tim Pears; 'This is a brilliantly observed novel which provides insight into men and women and their attitudes to marriage. And whilst the couple at the centre of this story have been through a lot, their story is told with warmth, and a little humour.-The Owl on the Bookshelf; 'Jones' writing is perceptive and often very witty...it's an engrossing, utterly gripping novel.-A Life in Books; 'Jack and Milly's marriage is like the weather, with sun either too fierce or blocked by clouds. They inhabit a climate with myriad variations of hot and cold, seeming different from the inside than from outside, from morning or evening, when filtered through a prism of the promise of happiness or resignation to "for better or worse". -Annecdotal; 'This book is a unique and individual take on love and what it really takes to make a marriage last and what personal costs and sacrifices it takes to make it work. Tender and stark. -Reflections of a Reader
ISBN: 9781910985380
Dimensions: 195mm x 130mm x 25mm
Weight: 327g
320 pages