The Promise of Happiness

8vo. 298pp. Printed wraps.

Signed by Author to title page.

Author's twelfth novel. Winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize and the South African Sunday Times Fiction Award. A Richard and Judy Book Club selection for 2005. A family reunion to welcome home to Cornwall the prodigal daughter who served her conviction for art theft in upstate New York, is the setting for secrets to be aired-out and old wounds to be re-opened. By the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of In Every Face I Meet. "[A] riveting, pitch-perfect exploration of the fine line that exists between tragedy and the English middle-class tradition of muddling along." – Simon Beckett, The Observer