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A Hunger - From the prizewinning author of GOD'S OWN COUNTRY

English · Hardback

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From the prizewinning author of God''s Own Country and A Natural comes a moving and intimate exploration of marriage, devotion and sacrifice, and a woman''s enduring search for freedom. A Hunger is the story of Anita: a talented sous chef at a high-end London restaurant. At home, however, her husband Patrick is suffering from dementia and declining rapidly. As she is thrown between two conflicting worlds - the exciting bustle of her kitchen and her exhausting new role as a carer - Anita must make a decision: about her husband''s future, as well as her own. Should she free them both by acting on his last plea for mercy, or should she remain faithful to the person Patrick once used to be? A decision complicated by ambition and the guilt of her own past - and by her intensifying friendship with another man, Peter, and the temptation of a new life. A Hunger is a novel about love and sacrifice; how illness and duty affect ordinary lives. With tenderness and precision, Ross Raisin explores what it means to look after somebody at the end of a life; what we owe to our loved ones, and to ourselves.

Product details

Authors Ross Raisin, Raisin Ross
Publisher JONATHAN CAPE
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 04.08.2022
 
EAN 9781910702659
ISBN 978-1-910702-65-9
No. of pages 464
Dimensions 162 mm x 240 mm x 41 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

London, Greater London, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

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