Summary
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright (Bloomsbury, (pounds) 16.99)
BEFORE they embarked on Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain warned his readers that any who tried to find a motive in it would be prosecuted and those who sought a moral in it would be banished. Perhaps Justin Cartwright ought to have offered a similar caveat for The Promise Of Happiness. It is a novel about a family which, as we know from Tolstoy, is a unique unit of unhappiness.See the full content of this document
Extract
In the Twilight of the Idyll
The Judds are English, middle-class and disintegrating. Ju-Ju - Juliet Judd - the eldest daughter, is about to be released from a US jail where she has spent two years for fencing stolen goods. Th...
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