Lovers and Newcomers: A Novel - Hardcover

Thomas, Rosie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1468302655 ISBN 13: 9781468302653

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 2016

Synopsis

Rosie Thomas, beloved by readers for her brilliantly realized characters and twisting, page-turning plots, turns her "sharp nib" (Washington Post Book World) to a group of older friends in this evocative story of camaraderie and its challenges.Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting. To begin with, the omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever: power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can’t be put back. When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. The past is revealed – and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.

About this title

About the Author:

Rosie Thomas is the author of numerous critically acclaimed, bestselling novels, and has twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Born in a small village in northern Wales, Thomas discovered a love of traveling and mountaineering when her children were grown. In the years since, she has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, and trekked in the footsteps of Shackleton on South Georgia Island.

Review:

“An engaging, emotionally rich story of best friends reconciling the past while the present marches irrevocably forward and of an unexpected shape of family.”
- Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1468302655
• ISBN 13: 9781468302653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448