A Way Through the Wood - Softcover

Balchin, Nigel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753819155 ISBN 13: 9780753819159

Verlag: Phoenix, 2005

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Críticas:

One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius (John Betjeman)

The missing writer of the Forties . . . Balchin's professional skill gives a meaning to brilliance which the word doesn't usually possess (Clive James NEW REVIEW)

[An] inexplicably neglected author (THE TIMES)

Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart (Ruth Rendell SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long (Julian Fellowes)

I'd place him up there with Graham Greene (Philippa Gregory)

A remarkable storyteller (DAILY MAIL)

A brilliant novelist . . . A writer of real skill (NEW STATESMAN)

He tells a story gloriously (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Balchin has the rare magnetic power that draws the human eye from one sentence to the next (EVENING STANDARD)

Reseña del editor:

James Manning is perfectly content. He has a busy and successful life as a magistrate in the city, a bright young thing of a wife, Jill, and an idyllic home in the countryside. The only fly in the ointment as far as he can see is the 'HonBule' - the Honourable William Stephen Fitzharding Bule, very much the country gentleman with too much time on his hands.

When a young man is knocked off his bicycle and subsequently dies, James is sure that the culprit is Bule - after all, he saw a scratch on the car the day of the accident AND the car matches the description to a T. But events take an unexpected turn when he discovers that the person driving the car that night was his own wife, Jill. It takes only a short leap of imagination to realise that Jill's friendship with the HonBule is not just platonic. This puts James in a quandary - should he lie to protect his wife, and what about his marriage?

Like GOSFORD PARK and SNOBS, one of the main themes of this book is the mores and ethics of the upper classes. James's feelings about his wife are complicated by 'what is expected', and in the cover-up of the young man's death there is a clash between class loyalty and justice.

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• Verlag: Phoenix
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0753819155
• ISBN 13: 9780753819159
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256