Bloomsbury Home
- Home
- FICTION
- General & Literary Fiction
- A Jest of God
You must sign in to add this item to your wishlist. Please sign in or create an account
Description
'An almost perfect book' MARGARET ATWOOD.
Whenever I find myself thinking in a brooding way, I must simply turn it off and think of something else. God forbid that I should turn into an eccentric.
Rachel Cameron is a shy, retiring schoolmistress, tethered to her overbearing invalid mother. Thirty-four and unmarried, she feels herself edging towards a lonely spinsterhood. But then she falls in love for the first time, and embarks upon an affair that will change her life in unforeseen ways.
Product details
Published | 09 Mar 2017 |
---|---|
Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 304 |
ISBN | 9781786691217 |
Imprint | Apollo Library |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
-
A Jest of God holds a special place for me... I found it an almost perfect book, in that it did what it set out to do, with no gaps and no excesses. Like a pool or a well, it covers a small area but goes down deep... plain, self-contained, elegant in form, holding within it the essentials of life'
Margaret Atwood
-
Authentic and powerful. The dialogue is full of nice ironies and the narrative finely paced
TLS
-
It's not hard to see why its female readers welcomed and cherished it... this is not a feel-good book but Rachel is portrayed with exceptional insight and subtlety which feel relevant still'
Sunday Herald
-
Laurence remains, for many readers, the defining conscious of 20th-century Canadian literary fiction as well as a major influence on Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood. It is easy to see why... This stylistically sophisticated narrative [is] tender and sympathetic but never sentimental'
Irish Times