
Living In Perhaps
Julia Widdows(Author)
Doubleday (Publisher)
Published on 30. January 2009
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-385-61538-9 (ISBN)
Description
Carol always resented her desperately dull Middle England family - her mother, endlessly knitting, her father and his weekly obsession with next door's ever-encroaching garden hedge, and her brother, ever silent and scheming. So when she is invited to meet the vibrant, bohemian family next door in their messy house full of books and paintings and empty of rules, Carol soon begins a secret double life over the much-hated garden hedge. Here Carol voices her greatest fantasy and tells her first major lie...that she is adopted. But on her 16th birthday Carol receives the shock of her life when her wish comes true. And as, years later, Carol frenetically narrates her story from a psychiatric unit, we realise how it affected her and those around her in the darkest of ways.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-385-61538-9 (9780385615389)
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Person
Julia Widdows was born in London and now lives in Brighton. She has had a number of short stories published and broadcast, and has run groups for recovering addicts and alcoholics using writing as a therapeutic tool. Living in Perhaps was shortlisted for the Daily Mail First Novel Award 2007. Julia works with very young disabled children and teaches postgraduate students. She is married with two sons.