The Great Wide Open

Douglas Kennedy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Published:25th Jul '19

£9.99

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The Great Wide Open cover

The latest epic from international bestseller Douglas Kennedy

‘Accomplished…a strangely mesmerising effect…absolutely excellent’
New Statesman

New York, 1980s

Alice Burns – a young book editor – is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life.

‘Accomplished…a strangely mesmerising effect…absolutely excellent’
New Statesman

New York, 1980s

Alice Burns – a young book editor – is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations within resonate, perhaps, because she has just watched her own family implode.

As she reads she wonders: When did the sadness start? And could it be that unhappiness is a choice?

Thus begins a great American epic which follows Alice as she navigates high school, first love and sexism at an elite college, a spell in 1970s Ireland, and a tragedy that sends her stateside as the US embraces a cowboy actor named Reagan.

But it is also the tale of her endlessly complex parents and brothers – how their destinies are written by the lies they tell themselves and others.

The Great Wide Open is an immensely ambitious and compulsive saga; a novel which will speak volumes to anyone who has marvelled at that pain that can only be caused by family itself.

This novel is a page-turner with a relentless pace -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Has a strangely mesmerising effect . . . absolutely excellent. * New Statesman *
Kennedy is skilled at zigzag plotting, blending domestic twists with turns created by global affairs. * Observer *
An ambitious tale from a reliably compelling story teller. * Sunday Mirror *
Douglas Kennedy sensitively engages with issues that still affect America to this day and creates a story with realism and heart * Woman's Weekly *

ISBN: 9780099585213

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm

Weight: 405g

592 pages