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Web of Belonging

Web of Belonging

by StevieDavies (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

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Synopsis

Jess has lived peacefully in Shrewsbury with her husband Jacob for many years. He is solid, dependable and treats her well. She is content just to be his wife and to look after 'The Oldies', the relatives they took in one by one as they became helpless and dependent. Little did they expect the amount of trouble three elderly people could bring. First there is Brenda, the most self-sufficient of the lot and a supporter of worthy causes. Then there is May, a turbulent woman who needs constant watching after punching the health visitor. She rails about a woman who looked after six priests for 45 years and won a medal from the Pope. Finally there is Cousin Nathan, who is of a holy disposition and insists on quoting Scripture at every opportunity. They live in contented discord until one evening Jacob simply disappears. 'Arrange the funeral,' cries May. Then Jacob is spotted in Ludlow on the arm of a blonde...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: Media tie-in
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Sep 2004
ISBN 10: 0753819082
ISBN 13: 9780753819081
Book Overview: ITV dramatisation with an all-star cast including Brenda Blethyn (Little Voice, Secrets and Lies); Anna Massey (Possession, The Importance of Being Earnest), Kevin Whately (Inspector Morse), Rosemary Harris (Spiderman) and Peter Sallis (Last of the Summer Wine) Kith & Kin was longlisted for the Orange Prize and received rave reviews. Her previous book, The Element of Water, was longlisted for the Booker prize 'Like Kingsley Amis, she can make the reader shudder with recognition as her characters embark upon their set pieces of folly and self-deception...A poignant, funny and luminous story...one of the funniest I have read this year' Helen Dunmore, The Times 'Richly written and scrupulously honest. And in the characters' stubborness lies a profoundly optimistic vision of the human spirit's capacity to endure' New Statesman

Author Bio
Stevie Davies is the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Swansea University and is a novelist, historian and literary critic. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.