Half in Love by Justin Cartwright

Half in Love by Justin Cartwright

Richard McAllister, a young government minister, is recuperating in South Africa after being attacked. Whilst out there, he is called back to London because his passionate affair with an actress has become public news. The love affair now becomes impossibly fraught amidst the fame and scandal.

Half In Love has the invigorating feel and racing pace of any good love story - Hampstead and Highgate Express

Cartwright's tender, ironic, but ultimately optimistic dissection of human love is as shrewd and unshrinking as his conclusions about politics and journalism.. Half in Love is a marvel of compression, of characterisation and of tightly cast thought. It is also very moving and utterly gripping, to which the author has cleverly added a sly whiff of the roman-a-clef. - The Times

Half in Love is a marvellous novel, serious, moving, compelling, wholly credible. - Weekend Scotsman

Intelligent and lucid - The Times

Cartwright has an unfashionable ear for sincerity, which ambushes modern readers used to seeing the false and flaky exposed. - Saturday Telegraph

This fine novel is also a powerful, irrestibly page-turning love-story. - Harpers & Queen

[An] urbanely intelligent story of political and sexual manners - The Sunday Times

An absorbing novel... the writing is elegant and crisp - Sunday Telegraph

Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and educated in America and at Oxford University. His books include IN EVERY FACE I MEET which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and LEADING THE CHEERS which won the Whitbread Novel Award for 1998.

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ISBN 13	9780340766293
ISBN 10	0340766298
Title	Half in Love
Author	Justin Cartwright
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2001-01-18
Number of pages	256
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