into the wreck

Beschreibung

'One of the best novels I've read this year from an unusually gifted writer' IRISH TIMES<BR>'A wonderfully stylish writer with an unwavering eye' JOHN PATRICK McHUGH<BR>'Perfectly calibrated . . . These characters spike off the page' A. K. BLAKEMORE<BR><BR>How do you mourn someone you never really knew?<BR><BR> Three siblings - Anna, Gemma and Matthew - will have to work that out quickly.

Monday is the day of their gentle, but distant, father's funeral, and for the first time in a long while they are under one roof with their mother, imperious Yvonne, awaiting the arrival of their aunt Amy, an award-winning poet.<BR><BR> Yet, as the funeral looms, their everyday concerns refuse to diminish: will newly sex-obsessed Gemma work out what she wants from life, beyond her mother's expectations?

Can Anna maintain the fine balance between desire and nonchalance with her not-quite-exclusive boyfriend back in London? Will Amy's past explode the relationships of the present? And, crucially, will Yvonne pull off her grand, post-funeral family dinner, the solution to what she fears may be an unsolvable problem?<BR><BR> Told from five perspectives, into the wreck worries at the knotty complexities of one family's bonds, written with Susannah Dickey's trademark empathy and wit.<BR><BR>'A rare talent, and certainly one to watch' SUNDAY TIMES<BR>'One of literature's major new talents' OBSERVER<BR>'One of the funniest and most insightful novelists writing today' NELL FRIZZELL

Angaben vom Händler.