- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd (15 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0704347911
- ISBN-13: 978-0704347915
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,680,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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About the Author
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.
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I purchased this book because I knew it was based in Shrewsbury Shropshire. I thought it would be good to read a book set in a place I knew. I loved reading this book. I felt I could relate to the emotions and stresses that some of the characters in it went through. Coping with divorce and the fallout of that . Of seeing your husband in a new life and how do you now fit into that life. Of playing the good one always wanting to make sure everyone else is ok but you get over looked. Good book but I didn`t see how it was suppossed to be comical.
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