This Book Will Save Your Life
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3.5 • 145 Ratings
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man's efforts to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern-day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home in Los Angeles who needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living-room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel about compassion and transformation, This Book Will Save Your Life reveals what can happen if you are willing to open yourself up to the world around you. Since her debut in 1989, A. M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of this touching and funny novel, which was shortlisted for the Richard & Judy Book Club in 2007.
Customer Reviews
This book could save your life
Listened to this as an audio book as i put a couple of sliding wardrobes together and was gripped. Lots of twists and turns to hold interest and for free you simply shouldn't miss it.
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Enjoyed it!
Impressive
To be honest, I struggled with the beginning of this book. It took a good block of time to get into the story; but once I did I couldn't put it down.
This is the first book by Homes that I've read and I'm on the hunt for more.