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Falling Short: The fresh, funny and life-affirming debut novel - Hardcover

Coulton, Lex

 
9781473669581: Falling Short: The fresh, funny and life-affirming debut novel
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1473669588 ISBN 13: 9781473669581
Verlag: John Murray Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

'Vastly enjoyable' Daily Mail

Frances Pilgrim's father went missing when she was five, and ever since all sorts of things have been going astray: car keys, promotions, a series of underwhelming and unsuitable boyfriends . . . Now here she is, thirty-bloody-nine, teaching Shakespeare to rowdy sixth formers and still losing things.

But she has a much more pressing problem. Her mother, whose odd behaviour Frances has long put down to eccentricity, is slowly yielding to Alzheimer's, leaving Frances with some disturbing questions about her father's disappearance, and the family history she's always believed in. Frances could really do with someone to talk to. Ideally Jackson: fellow teacher, dedicated hedonist, erstwhile best friend. Only they haven't spoken since that night last summer when things got complicated . . .

As the new school year begins, and her mother's behaviour becomes more and more erratic, Frances realises that she might just have a chance to find something for once. But will it be what she's looking for?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lex Coulton studied English, and later Creative Writing, at Oxford. She spent fourteen years teaching English in secondary schools before taking a sabbatical year in Paris, to focus on her writing. She has recently been awarded the Literature Works First Page Prize (2015) and the Thresholds International Feature Writing Prize (2016), and her short fiction is due to appear this year in the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, the literary magazine Shooter and the London Journal of Fiction. Lex grew up in Herefordshire, and has recently returned to live there with her husband, John, and their dogs Bazil and Sadie.

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Verlag
John Murray Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1473669588
ISBN 13 
9781473669581
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
304
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