Going Gently
Author | : David Nobbs |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2014-11-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781473519503 |
ISBN-13 | : 1473519500 |
Rating | : 4/5 (500 Downloads) |
Download or read book Going Gently written by David Nobbs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Thomas was beautiful, intelligent, witty, passionate and sexy. Now, at the ripe old age of ninety-nine, she is trapped in a hospital ward of sad, mad and bad old women. She escapes by playing to herself the video of her life. What a life it has been. Her six marriages have ended in suicide, a husband's adultery, another husband's deportation as a dangerous alien, a union dispute, a murder, and a natural death. But Kate's journey through the twentieth century is also a search for the truth - about life, death, and which of her three sons murdered her fifth husband. This is a novel rich in memorable characters, from Kate's narrow but loving Welsh family to the wild members of an artists' colony in Cornwall; from Midland piston manufacturers to an investigative journalist whose own life cannot bear investigation.