Perfect Happiness

Description

Product ID:	9780140069969
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Perfect Happiness
Authors:	Author: Penelope Lively
Page Count:	208
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Description:	Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. This title illuminates two terrifying taboos of the twentieth-century - death and grief. *Perfect Happiness* is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. At first she is completely submerged in her own loss until, shocked into feeling by the unexpected revelations and private sufferings of others, she is drawn agonizingly into new life - not into perfect happiness but into the sunlight of new hope. Penelope Lively''s moving and beautifully observed novel illuminates two terrifying taboos of the twentieth-century - death and grief. ''A triumph'' Spectator
Imprint Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	1985-01-31

Weight	190 g
Dimensions	190 × 130 × 16 mm