Catching the Sun

Informationen zum Autor Tony Parsons is the author of Man and Boy , winner of the Book of the Year prize. His subsequent novels – One For My Baby, Man and Wife, The Family Way, Stories We Could Tell and My Favourite Wife – were all bestsellers. He is also the author of the Max Wolfe thrillers. He lives in London. Klappentext Just how badly do you want to find paradise? Taxi driver Tom Finn leaves broken Britain and takes his wife and children to live on the tropical island of Phuket! Thailand. This tropical paradise is all the family dreamed of - but both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this idyll. The gripping and moving story of a family who go in search of Paradise - and end up discovering themselves.

Report

'Simmering beneath the dazzling sunlight there are gritty undercurrents aplenty' Express
'The prose seamlessly pulls you along...a lasting novel about belief and longing' Daily Mirror
'A love letter to Thailand' BBC
' ... a simple yet effective story, exploring the incessant search for happiness and what people will do to secure it' Irish Examiner
'Tony Parson's great skill is that he can cut to the core of relationships' The Book Bag
'[The Finn Family] soon discover the start truth behind the tourist-brochure 'holiday paradise' image, before emerging emotionally stronger from the strains of their relocation' Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Tony Parsons
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.05.2012
• EAN: 9780007475957
• ISBN: 978-0-00-747595-7
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 177 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Harper
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Thailand, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary, Family;Paradise