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Secrets of a Family Album Isla Dewar

Secrets of a Family Album By Isla Dewar

Secrets of a Family Album by Isla Dewar


$13.69
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

A warm, perceptive and drily humorous new novel from the wonderful Isla Dewar, who gets under the skin of both her characters and her readers

Secrets of a Family Album Summary

Secrets of a Family Album by Isla Dewar

Compulsively neat, obsessively organised, Lily is a writer who writes about writers. When she is asked to contribute to a book on lost icons, she visits Rita Boothe - photographer, journalist and wit - who took LSD when she was forty and never lived up to her promise. Rita shows Lily some of her photographs, including one of a beautiful, sexy creature drinking Jack Daniels in a white limousine. It is Mattie, Lily's mother. Lily stares in wonder and with envy - she wishes she could live with such abandon. But Mattie is no longer the woman in the limo, and she and Lily's father live in a neglected house with their neglected marriage. Lily and her siblings want to mend their parents' rift, but Marie's husband has walked out, and Rory avoids coming home altogether. Unless something happens, the family's going to fade away. But something is about to happen...

Secrets of a Family Album Reviews

'Dewar draws characters with acerbic wit, and also love - recommended' * West Australian *
'Her characters and situations are so real-life and having been born and brought up in Edinburgh, I particularly appreciated the setting' * Hilary Carmichael *

About Isla Dewar

Isla Dewar is the author of many acclaimed novels including Keeping up with Magda, Dancing in a Distant Place, Secrets of a Family Album and Women Talking Dirty. Women Talking Dirty was made into a film starring Eileen Atkins, Helen Bonham Carter, Gina McKee and James Nesbitt.

Isla lives in Fife with her cartoonist husband.

Additional information

GOR002873578
9780755300822
0755300823
Secrets of a Family Album by Isla Dewar
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Headline Publishing Group
2005-06-06
416
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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