In Wait for Me, Jack, V.S. Pritchett prize winning author Addison Jones serves Romance fans a rich and honest insight of a 6-decade marriage: the exhilaration, the dysfunction, and the everlasting love that holds it all together. San Francisco, 1952. Swimming eagerly in the possibility of post-war freedom, Jack and Milly marry, hoping to seize their corner of the American Dream and blissfully unaware of what life has in store. As life rolls into the modern age, so do they, clinging to the spark they once held as they meander through lifes fortunes and failures. The Times Top Summer Read Wait For Me, Jack cascades backwards through the lives of Jack and Milly and their 63 year marriage. Each chapter is an honest dissection of their relationship, revealing what makes people stay - despite everything. Intelligent, moving and captivating, award-winning author Cynthia Rogerson (under pen name Addison Jones) sheds light on some harsh truths of love and marriage in a novel equal parts joyful and turbulent, crafting a deceptively casual, episodic novel that is uplifting and astute (The Sunday Times). Rogerson is a master of fresh and sparky writing. The Guardian. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Title: Wait for me, Jack
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd, United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1910985384
ISBN 13: 9781910985380
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 340 grams

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Set near San Francisco, this warm and funny novel follows the fortunes and failures of Jack and Milly for sixty years. They marry in 1952, and typical of post-war couples, shift up a class. Optimistic and full of plans, they see themselves living the Ame

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Addison Jones is the author of four novels and a collection of short stories, all written under the name of Cynthia Rogerson. She holds a RLF Fellowship at Dundee University, and supervises for the University of Edinburgh's creative writing program.

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