The Promise of Happiness

Justin Cartwright

Original title: The promise of happiness

first published 2004 Bloomsbury USA, 2007 paperback 307 pages

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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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The Promise of Happiness ebook · 2010 · Bloomsbury Publishing · 9781408806227
The Promise of Happiness paperback · 2007 · Bloomsbury USA · 307 pages · 9781596913790
The promise of happiness edition · 2006 · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
The promise of happiness. edition · 2005 · W. F. Howes · 435 pages
The promise of happiness edition · 2004 · McArthur · 307 pages
The promise of happiness edition · 2004 · Bloomsbury · 307 pages

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