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Fiction, General Fiction

A Thousand Pardons

Jonathan Dee (author)

Paperback Published on: 05/09/2013

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Synopsis

Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point and it takes one afternoon - and a single act of recklessness - for Ben to deal the final blow to their marriage, spectacularly demolishing everything they built together.

Helen and her teenage daughter Sara leave for Manhattan where Helen takes a job in PR - her first in many years - and discovers she has a gift for spinning crises into second chances. But can she apply her professional talent to her personal life?

A Thousand Pardons is an elegant, audacious, gripping and sharply observed novel about a marriage in ruins and a family in crisis; about the limits of self-invention and the seduction of self-destruction.

Publisher information

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781472108333
Number of pages: 288
Dimensions: 198 x 148 x 18 mm
Weight: 238g
Languages: English

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Crisis management

Initially set in the New York suburbs this starts as a study in a family breakdown with the associated frustrations and blunt language. After moving quickl... READ MORE

Occasional reader

Not for me

I was brought up believing that if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all, I'll leave it there.

Marcus R Horne

Not my kind of book

I found the story line implausible and erratic, nothing materialize as the story progressed, the ending was very weak. Not my kind of book .

mad about books

Short of a Pardon or Two!

A disappointing novel. The author seems to have had several ideas for the plot and characters but neither have been developed beyond basic banality. The ce... READ MORE

Kaye

Mediocre

I didn't really enjoy this book as I found the plot too far fetched and unconvincing. While it started off ok, as the novel progressed it got worse and I w... READ MORE

Emily Bevan

Sadly I wouldn't recommend it

I was sent this by Waterstones as a free copy to review. Unfortunately it didn’t grab me to begin with and it has taken me some time to pick it up again to... READ MORE

Recretia

Have read better!!

I had not previously read any of Jonathan Dee's books so was unsure what to expect. After reading this I'm not sure I will go out of my way to read anymore... READ MORE

Jenny Little

Prune finger rating - zero

I normally read a book on the train, half-an-hour each way, sometimes I might be seen plodding slowly up the hill to home reading "the book", I may take an... READ MORE

Nicholas Hayes

A PR fable

I never thought I would feel sympathy for anyone in PR, but I did for Helen Armstead. This modern fable plots an odyssey through a difficult period in her ... READ MORE

slowreader

Full of Drama

Helen & Ben Armtead go to see Dr Becket because they have marriage problems where they do not speak or touch each other any more. Ben gets a new summer ass... READ MORE

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A Thousand Pardons

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