Knit Scarves and Shawls by Jane Davis
Two young boys allow a grade school grudge to fester through their adolescent years. An incident during their last year of high school provokes one of the boys to challenge the other to a fight. The fight is witnessed by a group of friends as it becomes very brutal, leaving physical and emotional scars that they both carry far into adulthood. Mike, a superb athlete and vicious warrior, came from an upper middle class family where he had everything except an understanding of empathy and courage. Dennis, a gifted athlete and womanizer, came from a hardscrabble family where what he lacked in comforts and opportunity, he created with bravado and imaginings. Mike's earlier battles with people become adult battles with memories and booze. Dennis' life is marred by sticky repercussions of the old fight and an undue share of bad luck. Their adult lives are traveled on roads that will never meet--except for the circumstance of a high school reunion that changes them forever.
Davis, Jane: - Hailed by The Bookseller as 'One to Watch', Jane Davis writes thought-provoking novels, which straddle contemporary, historical, literary and women's fiction genres, have earned her comparisons to authors such as Kate Atkinson, Maggie O'Farrell and Jodi Picoult. Jane spent her twenties and the first half of her thirties chasing promotions in the business world, but when she achieved what she'd set out to do, she discovered that it wasn't what she wanted after all. It was then that she turned to writing. After her first novel, Half-Truths and White Lies, won an award which was established with the aim of finding 'the next Joanne Harris', it took Jane a little while to work out that all she really wanted to be was a slightly shinier version of herself. An Unknown Woman, was Writing Magazine's Self-Published Book of the Year 2016. Most recently, Smash all the Windows was the winner of the Selfies (best independently-published work of fiction) Award 2019. Jane lives in Carshalton, Surrey, in what she describes as 'a totally impractical money-pit of a house', with her Formula 1 obsessed, beer-brewing partner, who would be considerably happier if she hadn't turned the dining room table into a writing desk. When she isn't writing, you may spot Jane disappearing up the side of a mountain in the Lake District with a camera in hand.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780873499651 |
| ISBN 10 | 0873499654 |
| Title | Knit Scarves and Shawls |
| Author | Jane Davis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | F&W Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2005-05-20 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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