The Promise of Happiness - Cartwright, Justin
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Ju-Ju Briggs has just been released from prison in upstate New York. Now she's returning home to England. An art expert with an immaculate education, Ju-Ju is no typical criminal. Nor was her crime - the theft of a Tiffany-glass window from a Brooklyn cemetary - a straightforward one. Some might call it grave-robbing, others an act of conservation. For Ju-Ju it was an act of love. In their Cotswold house, Ju-Ju's parents are preparing a welcome party. This is no simple matter either. Daphne holds untold resentment against their daughter, the 'golden girl', Charles is ashamed. Ju-Ju's younger…mehr

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Ju-Ju Briggs has just been released from prison in upstate New York. Now she's returning home to England. An art expert with an immaculate education, Ju-Ju is no typical criminal. Nor was her crime - the theft of a Tiffany-glass window from a Brooklyn cemetary - a straightforward one. Some might call it grave-robbing, others an act of conservation. For Ju-Ju it was an act of love. In their Cotswold house, Ju-Ju's parents are preparing a welcome party. This is no simple matter either. Daphne holds untold resentment against their daughter, the 'golden girl', Charles is ashamed. Ju-Ju's younger brother Charlie, and sister Sophie, both of whom have much to conceal, also have their own fears... As the family struggles to come to terms with Ju-Ju's crime, secrets are shed and emotions reach their pitch. No one will leave this party unchanged.
Autorenporträt
Cartwright, Justin
Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, the acclaimed White Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven By Water, Other People's Money, winner of the Spears Novel of the Year, Lion Heart and, most recently, the acclaimed Up Against the Night. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London.
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Rezensionen
'Justin Cartwright is one of our best novelists, but he still feels like a buried treasure.' Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year