Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Paperback (02 Jan 2006)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Is Emilia the wicked stepmother incarnate? Passionately in love with her husband, Emilia has a secret, guilty loathing for her precocious little stepson, William - a forty-year-old in a five-year-old's body, whom she picks up from nursery every Wednesday afternoon. He is lactose intolerant, she feeds him dairy products; he mustn't get cold, she pushes him - accidentally - into a pond in Central Park. How can she forgive William for living, when her own cherished child has gone?

Love and Other Impossible Pursuitsis funny, candid and raw, a humorous and emotional novel about family in today's fractured society. Set among high-achieving Manhattanites, it announces the arrival of an exciting new American voice.

About the Publisher

Doubleday

Doubleday is an imprint of Transworld Publishers and publishes bestselling authors such as Bill Bryson, Joanne Harris, Terry Pratchett and Kate Atkinson in hardback.

Book information

ISBN: 9780385608817
Publisher: Transworld
Imprint: Doubleday
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 332
Weight: 440g
Height: 233mm
Width: 154mm
Spine width: 25mm