- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Sceptre (5 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 034065385X
- ISBN-13: 978-0340653852
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.7 x 19.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 484,826 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘A compelling drama, full of subtle observation and wry humour’ (The Times )
'A cracking page-turner of a novel, written with consummate skill and feeling. This wholly contemporary story of love and survival in the city is free of cliché and full of surprises’ (Judy Cooke, Mail on Sunday )
‘Lily walks between loneliness and defiance, wretchedness and quiet triumph; it’s a delicate line and Jill Dawson achieves it with style, humour and honesty’ (Roddy Doyle )
‘A beautifully evocative novel about loneliness, friendship and love. Seldom has inner-city London been depicted with such passion, and peopled with such a disparate array of characters, all of whom remain totally convincing and linger in the memory long after the final page’ (Caryl Phillips )
‘One of the reasons for the book’s success is its likeable central character, another is the truthfulness and sensitivity with which it depicts ordinary life’ (Christina Koning, The Times )
‘[A] gem of a novel … compelling, honest and unputdownable’ (List )
'A cracking page-turner of a novel, written with consummate skill and feeling. This wholly contemporary story of love and survival in the city is free of cliché and full of surprises’ (Judy Cooke, Mail on Sunday )
‘Lily walks between loneliness and defiance, wretchedness and quiet triumph; it’s a delicate line and Jill Dawson achieves it with style, humour and honesty’ (Roddy Doyle )
‘A beautifully evocative novel about loneliness, friendship and love. Seldom has inner-city London been depicted with such passion, and peopled with such a disparate array of characters, all of whom remain totally convincing and linger in the memory long after the final page’ (Caryl Phillips )
‘One of the reasons for the book’s success is its likeable central character, another is the truthfulness and sensitivity with which it depicts ordinary life’ (Christina Koning, The Times )
‘[A] gem of a novel … compelling, honest and unputdownable’ (List )
The Times
‘A compelling drama, full of subtle observation and wry humour'
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Jill Dawson details the life and times of a newly single mother and the problems she faces. Her main character experiences a host of bad happenings without some grand happy ending. It is very realistic, but not completely depressing. It is more about the strength of human nature and survival.
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