Half in love - Hardcover

Cartwright, Justin

3.14

84 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340766298 ISBN 13: 9780340766293

Publisher: Sceptre, 2001

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Richard McAllister, a young government minister, is recuperating in South Africa after being attacked. Whilst out there, he is called back to London because his passionate affair with an actress has become public news. The love affair now becomes impossibly fraught amidst the fame and scandal.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and educated in America and at Oxford University. His novel LEADING THE CHEERS won the Whitbread Book Award for 1998. Justin Cartwright lives in north London with his wife and two sons.

Review:

Half In Love has the invigorating feel and racing pace of any good love story Hampstead and Highgate Express Cartwright's tender, ironic, but ultimately optimistic dissection of human love is as shrewd and unshrinking as his conclusions about politics and journalism... Half in Love is a marvel of compression, of characterisation and of tightly cast thought. It is also very moving and utterly gripping, to which the author has cleverly added a sly whiff of the roman-a-clef. The Times Half in Love is a marvellous novel, serious, moving, compelling, wholly credible. Weekend Scotsman Intelligent and lucid The Times Cartwright has an unfashionable ear for sincerity, which ambushes modern readers used to seeing the false and flaky exposed. Saturday Telegraph This fine novel is also a powerful, irrestibly page-turning love-story. Harpers & Queen [An] urbanely intelligent story of political and sexual manners The Sunday Times An absorbing novel... the writing is elegant and crisp Sunday Telegraph [Half in Love] is awash with neatly drawn minor characters - and knocks most contemporary fiction into a cocked hat. The Spectator

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.