The Promise of Happiness
Original title: The promise of happiness
first published 2004 Bloomsbury USA, 2007 paperback 307 pages
From award-winner Justin Cartwright, a classic and stunning novel of English life and family love Charles Judd meanders round his local Cornish beach, contemplating the turns his life has taken. His wife Daphne struggles hopelessly with the latest fish recipe, trying to keep something in her life under control. Two of their children are keeping it all together – just. But they are all still recovering from the shock...
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