Fortunate

Sharp, Andrew JH

ISBN 10: 1783060018 / ISBN 13: 9781783060016

Verlag: Matador, 2013

Beschreibung

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind. Signed by Author(Unverified).

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Fortunate
• Verlag: Matador
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1783060018
• ISBN-13: 9781783060016
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Like New

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Inhaltsangabe

Beth Jenkins is a young locum doctor and prides herself on helping her patients reframe the story of their lives – nudging them towards more optimistic narratives – but her own story is stuck. Her husband has had a stroke, disastrously altering his personality, and she’s trapped in a life of duty and loneliness. Beth is semi-bereaved and will be for decades. On the other hand she knows, in theory, that there are millions of lives possible to live. Could it be that, by a quirk of fate, she’s in the wrong life? Should she flee, make a new start? It would have to be somewhere far away, somewhere so out of the way and hazardous that no one would risk looking for her – somewhere like Zimbabwe, where she might find the person (part real, part fantasy) she’s named Safari Man. But she has a career, of sorts, has responsibilities and she’s twenty-eight-and-a-half – far too old to run away from home. Then she comes across a poem: ‘The day comes when they have to declare the great Yes.’ She makes her choice...

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew JH Sharp is a writer and a medical doctor. He has lived and worked in both sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. His first novel, The Ghosts of Eden, won the 2010 Waverton Good Read Award and was short-listed for the 2011 International Rubery Book Award.