The Prodigal Wife - Softcover

Willett, Marcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552788016 ISBN 13: 9781552788011

Publisher: McArthur & Co Pub Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Willett, Marcia

About this title

About the Author:

Marcia Willett's early life was devoted to the ballet, but her dreams of becoming a ballerina ended when she grew out of the classical proportions then required. She had always loved books, and a family crisis made her take up a new career as a novelist - a decision she has never regretted. She lives in a beautiful, wild part of Devon with her husband, where she loves to be visited by her son and his young family.

From Booklist:

The institutions of marriage and family come under particularly keen scrutiny in Willett’s reliably tender hands even as she casts an uncharacteristically harsh light on the adult children of a close-knit group of friends, a generation still reeling from the aftereffects of parental divorces that took place years earlier. Enjoying newfound celebrity as the host of a popular television show, Jolyon Chadwick finds the glow of his success quickly tarnished when it brings the unwelcome attention of his estranged mother, Maria. Jolyon has long resented the way she abandoned him when she divorced his father to marry her lover, and he has little sympathy for her now that she is a recent widow at loose ends. Likewise, Henrietta bears thinly veiled animosity toward her mother, successful journalist Cordelia Lytton, as she continues to blame her for the affair that ended her parents’ marriage and caused her father to unceremoniously walk out of her life forever. Willett’s hopeful messages of contrition and redemption frequently are obscured by an overly complicated labyrinth of internecine strife. --Carol Haggas

About this edition

• Publisher: McArthur & Co Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1552788016
• ISBN 13: 9781552788011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336