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‘Hugely enjoyable’ John Boyne‘Contemporary family drama at its most compelling, and with a brutally exquisite ending’ Nathan Filer‘I couldn’t put it down till I was done’ Nikita LalwaniArnold Proctor’s quiet life is thrown off balance when he falls obsessively in love with Vera, a religious woman and one of his wife’s friends. Vera seems untroubled by her wrongdoing, yet faithless Arnold is wracked with guilt. He has never believed in God, but now he wonders if he truly believes in anything at all?Polly makes handcrafted paper, and even though the age of paper is dead, she runs a successful shop selling her exquisite products. Polly is secure and happy in her life, until the day her husband Arnold makes a very uncharacteristic declaration.Gerard Woodward's The Paper Lovers is a devastating story of sexual, religious and artistic obsession. It is about love and betrayal, and what becomes of us after our greatest certainties have been shattered.
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Gerard Woodward is the author of a number of novels, including Nourishment and an acclaimed trilogy comprising of August (shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award), I'll Go to Bed at Noon (shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize), and A Curious Earth. He published several prize-winning collections of poetry before turning to fiction. His collection of poetry, We Were Pedestrians, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1509848010
- ISBN 13 9781509848010
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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