- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; First edition (6 Oct 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002256339
- ISBN-13: 978-0002256339
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,223,566 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the reviews of A Great Task of Happiness:
‘It is impossible to put this book down’
Frances Spalding, Sunday Times
‘A fascinating, racy book’
Beryl Bainbridge, Spectator
‘Written with the brio of a latter-day Mitford’
Miranda Seymour, Independent
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Fast-paced literary thriller in which ex-bellydancer Angeline’s fight to protect three-year-old Lily draws her back into the seedy underworld of her past – the first book in Louisa Young’s celebrated Anglo-Egyptian trilogy of Evangeline Gower novels.
Angeline is a single parent whose child is the daughter of her sister, killed in a motorbike accident while eight months pregnant. Angeline, who was driving the bike, sustained injuries which put an end to her career as a cabaret bellydancer and she now leads an exemplary life, writing and looking after Lily. But when she gets into a spot of bother with the police, she is drawn into the shadow world of drug dealers, pornographers and bent coppers that seems to have bizarre connections with her sister and her past.
Featuring a 1957 Pontiac, a Harley Davidson, sequinned bras, drugs, deals and social workers, and with a plot that makes you rush to the end, this is a thriller without violence, a romance without sentiment and a brilliantly exciting debut.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Parental love is a by-line to a fast paced and entertaining story. The author puts across the deep emotions of bereavement and love for her child with a sure and deft touch.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A great story . . . sexual politics and suspense. Touching and well-observed relationship between mother and child. But I want to know what happens next . . .
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Louisa Young can definitely write. But what ridiculous storylines and characters! The heroine is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed belly-dancer, for a start, who gets embroiled in all sorts of outlandish and improbable situations. I just felt that Young was trying too hard to be cool, trying to impress the reader with how hard she is (couldn't shake the feeling that Evangeline was Young) All that motorbike stuff and hard-faced one-liners that no woman I know would ever come out with. To the reader who wanted to know what happens next, there is a sequel on its way apparently. Whoopee.
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