Advenures in Modern Marriage
by William Nicholson
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Pub Date 26 Jan 2017 | Archive Date 3 Feb 2017
Description
“Nicholson's great strength lies in his ability to make the reader understand and care about his characters ... He is particularly concerned with morality and love, subjects that have inspired all great novelists. It is a joy to find a contemporary writer passionately engaged with both” - Elizabeth Jane Howard A big-hearted novel about life and love in the bestselling vein of Colm Toibin and Nick Hornby
Set over the week leading up to the 2015 General Election, Adventures in Modern Marriage revisits the characters from The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life.
Focusing on Henry and Laura Broad and their daughter Carrie, this is a minute - but in true Nicholson style, extraordinarily empathetic - dissection of relationships and what keeps them going. It is an acute and compassionate look at male mid-life crises, female sexual desire, death and the fear of it, children and the trouble with them - all the things we battle with every day.
Advance Praise
“So incredibly accurate and true. Utterly captures the sense of quiet desperation of ordinary lives, the huge emotional vulnerability of having children and the ways in which life turns on a sixpence” - Kate Mosse
“He writes about doubt, love, equivocation, treachery, loyalty and joy, but he does so with such empathy and shifts one's perspectives with such unobtrusive skill that he widens one's sense of what it means to be human” - Jenni Russell
“Nicholson is a subtle and addictive writer who deserves to be a household name ... [with] his remarkable eye for detail and for the weaknesses of human nature' - Observer
This is a slice of English countryside viewed in the manner of both Anthony and Joanna Trollope; substantial, richly detailed and acutely observed” - The Times
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781784298524 |
| PRICE | £19.99 (GBP) |
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