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The Widow's Tale

The Widow's Tale

by Mick Jackson
Paperback
Age range: 0 to 0 years old Publication Date: 03/02/2011

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A newly-widowed woman has done a runner. She just jumped in her car, abandoned her (very nice) house in north London and kept on driving until she reached the Norfolk coast. Now she's rented a tiny cottage and holed herself away there, if only to escape the ceaseless sympathy and insincere concern.

She's not quite sure, but thinks she may be having a bit of a breakdown. Or perhaps this sense of dislocation is perfectly normal in the circumstances. All she knows is that she can't sleep and may be drinking a little more than she ought to.

But as her story unfolds we discover that her marriage was far from perfect. That it was, in fact, full of frustration and disappointment, as well as one or two significant secrets, and that by running away to this particular village she might actually be making her own personal pilgrimage.

By turns elegiac and highly comical, The Widow's Tale conjures up this most defiantly unapologetic of narrators as she begins to pick over the wreckage of her life and decide what has real value and what she should leave behind.
ISBN:
9780571254415
9780571254415
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Age range:
0 to 0 years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-02-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
198x126x16mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Mick Jackson

Mick Jackson has published four adult novels and two collections of stories, all with Faber.

His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Royal Society of Authors First Novel Award. Mick came to children’s books late, through having his own kids.

The children’s books he most admires are quite eccentric, but underpinned with tenderness.

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