Hand Me Down World
Published on 9. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-84854-480-2 (ISBN)
Description
Sometimes a person passes through your world and you don't forget them.
She is like that.
She is crossing continents, searching for her missing child.
Everyone she comes into contact with has a tale to tell: the truck driver who mistook her for a prostitute, the hunters who almost shot her, the Frenchman who loved her, the blind man and the lodger.
This is her story.
She is like that.
She is crossing continents, searching for her missing child.
Everyone she comes into contact with has a tale to tell: the truck driver who mistook her for a prostitute, the hunters who almost shot her, the Frenchman who loved her, the blind man and the lodger.
This is her story.
Reviews / Votes
Compelling . . . vivid . . . intense . . . one of the most significant novelists writing today * Sunday Times * Humane and moving, it's a worthy successor to Jones's last novel, the Booker-shortlisted Mister Pip * Daily Mail * Artfully constructed and delicately nuanced . . . Hand Me Down World has an eerie compulsion * D J Taylor, Financial Times * Everyone will want to read Hand Me Down World and few will be able to stop thinking about it after they do * Irish Independent * The novel's readability belies its great depth . . . Jones's novel is haunting to the very final line * Sunday Telegraph * This is, to make a bold claim, an extraordinary novel . . . Jones is a daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today * Joanna Briscoe, Guardian * 'A haunting tale of a mother's search for her only child' * The Times * Gripping . . . Jones subtly dramatises this crucial ethical dilemma with strong characters. Vulnerable and abused, the woman holds the reader's sympathy yet repays almost every kindness with theft and betrayal. Jones artfully builds these contradictory impulses into richly textured layers to create a compelling narrative and an absorbing disquisition on relative morality and justice * FT * 'A startling novel' * Guardian *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
226 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84854-480-2 (9781848544802)
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Lloyd Jones is the author of several novels and short story collections which include Mister Pip, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize best book award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.