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The Promise of Happiness

By Justin Cartwright

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| eBook | 9781408806227

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Book Description

The Judds, formerly of London N1, now scattered, are about to be thrown together again by the eldest child Juliet's release from prison in New York. The family is devastated by Juliet's conviction for art theft. The nature of this theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For CharlesContinue

Critics

The return of the native

‘When you look at families, there is no such thing as normal.’ Indeed not. Justin Cartwright gives us the Judds, an apparently ordinary English middle-class family, and examines their response to a private catastrophe. The book begins as Juliet Judd, ... (read full critics)

spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

Redemption Value

Justin Cartwright is surprisingly little known in the United States, although in England he is frequently mentioned alongside authors like Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Kazuo Ishiguro. I am hopeful that his bitingly funny and fiercely observed new nove ... (read full critics)

nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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This is a family novel of an apparently ordinary English family. In the course of telling the story of the five members of the family, which starts on the day the favourite daughter Juliet is released from jail, we get a intimate and moving picture of the Judds. It is very subtle and moving, well wo ... (continue)

This is a family novel of an apparently ordinary English family. In the course of telling the story of the five members of the family, which starts on the day the favourite daughter Juliet is released from jail, we get a intimate and moving picture of the Judds. It is very subtle and moving, well worth reading.

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