Idea of Love

Informationen zum Autor Louise Dean is the author of two previous novels: Becoming Strangers, which was awarded the Betty Trask Prize in 2004, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and This Human Season. She lives in Kent and has three children. Klappentext Richard's life is unravelling: his beautiful wife! Valerie! is having an affair! his son Maxence may (or may not) be mentally disturbed! and the idyllic life he'd hoped for when they moved to Provence has become more nightmare than paradise. Suddenly! a routine trip to Africa to sell pharmaceuticals is more than he can handle. Zusammenfassung Richard's life is unravelling: his beautiful wife, Valerie, is having an affair, his son Maxence may (or may not) be mentally disturbed, and the idyllic life he'd hoped for when they moved to Provence has become more nightmare than paradise. Suddenly, a routine trip to Africa to sell pharmaceuticals is more than he can handle.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Dean, Dean Louise
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.07.2009
• EAN: 9780141030593
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103059-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Fiction; Penguin Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary