Wait for Me, Jack by Addison Jones
A Sunday Times top summer read. In Wait for Me, Jack, V.S. Pritchett prize winning author Addison Jones serves romance fans a rich and honest insight of a 6-decade marriage: the exhilaration, the dysfunction, and the everlasting love that holds it all together.
'Spanning 60 years, Jones's deceptively casual, episodic novel is a warm-hearted dissection of a dysfunctional marriage: disappointing affairs, unfulfilled careers, chaotic children, incessant sniping and growing differencesUplifting and astute, this should save marriages.-Sunday Times; 'A frank, earthy and drily amusing portrait of a marriage -The Herald; 'Brilliantly observed and often very funny.-Morag Joss; 'A lesson, not in how to love, but how to make love last.-Tim Pears; 'This is a brilliantly observed novel which provides insight into men and women and their attitudes to marriage. And whilst the couple at the centre of this story have been through a lot, their story is told with warmth, and a little humour.-The Owl on the Bookshelf; 'Jones' writing is perceptive and often very witty...it's an engrossing, utterly gripping novel.-A Life in Books; 'Jack and Milly's marriage is like the weather, with sun either too fierce or blocked by clouds. They inhabit a climate with myriad variations of hot and cold, seeming different from the inside than from outside, from morning or evening, when filtered through a prism of the promise of happiness or resignation to "for better or worse". -Annecdotal; 'This book is a unique and individual take on love and what it really takes to make a marriage last and what personal costs and sacrifices it takes to make it work. Tender and stark. -Reflections of a Reader
Addison Jones is the author of four novels and a collection of short stories, all written under the name of Cynthia Rogerson. She holds a RLF Fellowship at Dundee University, and supervises for the University of Edinburgh's creative writing program.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910985380 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910985384 |
| Title | Wait for Me, Jack |
| Author | Addison Jones |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sandstone Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2017-01-19 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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