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The Doctor´s Wife
Brian Moore
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Description for The Doctor´s Wife
Paperback. 288 pages. Shortlisted for The Booker Prize. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight: 202.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE _______________________ ‘Near perfection... one of the outstanding works of fiction of the year.' - The Times 'A splendidly bracing experience.' - New Statesman _______________________ Sheila Redden, a quiet, 37-year-old doctor's wife, has long been looking forward to returning with her husband to the town where they spent their honeymoon over twenty years ago. Little does she suspect that after a chance encounter in Paris she will end up spending her holiday with a man she has only just met, an American man ten years her junior. Four weeks later, Sheila ... Read more
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE _______________________ ‘Near perfection... one of the outstanding works of fiction of the year.' - The Times 'A splendidly bracing experience.' - New Statesman _______________________ Sheila Redden, a quiet, 37-year-old doctor's wife, has long been looking forward to returning with her husband to the town where they spent their honeymoon over twenty years ago. Little does she suspect that after a chance encounter in Paris she will end up spending her holiday with a man she has only just met, an American man ten years her junior. Four weeks later, Sheila ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408827024
SKU
V9781408827024
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Brian Moore
Brian Moore was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and the ... Read more
Reviews for The Doctor´s Wife
‘The subject - an ordinary woman seized by love for a younger man in the middle of her life - supplies just the right material for Mr Moore's tender, probing technique. It is uncanny: No other male writer, I swear (and precious few females), knows so much about women'
Sunday Telegraph
‘The novel is near perfection. The elegance ... Read more
Sunday Telegraph
‘The novel is near perfection. The elegance ... Read more