Catherine and Caroline, Toby and Mark were globetrotting siblings: British 'diplo-brats', whose childhood homes lay in Italy or Israel, France or Washington DC - wherever their father was posted at the time. But all that was years ago. Now Catherine is approaching middle age, married to a life of cheeseparing selflessness looking after young offenders on a chilly organic farm; Mark is a prim supermarket executive, Caroline a wealthy Kensington wife, and Toby - well, Toby is a problem. The joker in the pack. He always was. Amid growing tensions, marriage-fatigue and unspoken resentments, the apparent tragedy of Toby's mysterious disappearance jolts his sisters and brother into making angry anxious journeys: from California to Flanders, back in time and into their own hearts. The results are sometimes comic, unexpected, but oddly satisfying. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Titel: Home Leave
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton, United Kingdom
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0340680415
ISBN-13: 9780340680414
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good

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But all that was years ago. Now Catherine is approaching middle age, married to a life of cheeseparing selflessness looking after young offenders on a chilly organic farm; Mark is a prim supermarket executive, Caroline a wealthy Kensington wife, and Toby - well, Toby is a problem. The joker in the pack. He always was.

Amid growing tensions, marriage-fatigue and unspoken resentments, the apparent tragedy of Toby's mysterious disappearance jolts his sisters and brother into making angry anxious journeys: from California to Flanders, back in time and into their own hearts. The results are sometimes comic, unexpected, but oddly satisfying.

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Libby Purves is a writer and also a broadcaster who has presented the talk programme Midweek on Radio 4 since 1984 and formerly presented Today. She is a main columnist on the Times and in 1999 was named the Granada "What the Papers Say" Columnist of the Year, and awarded a O.B.E for services to journalism. Her books on family life, How Not to Be a Perfect Mother, How Not to Raise a Perfect Child and How Not to Be a Perfect Family have been widely translated. Her compendium Nature's Masterpiece appeared in 1999 to complete the work. She also wrote One Summer's Grace, an account of a voyage around Britain in a small sailing boat with her husband and two small children in 1988. She lives in Suffolk with her husband the broadcaster and writer Paul Heiney.

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