This is the story of how we grow old – how we give up the dreams of youth for something better – and how many chances we have to get it right.
George Bailey has been given the gift we all dream of – the chance to live his life again.After suffering a heart attack at the age of 42, George is given the heart of a 19-year-old – and suddenly everything changes…
He is a friend to his teenage son and daughter – and not a stern Home Secretary, monitoring their every move.
He makes love to his wife all night long – instead of from midnight until about five past. And suddenly he wants to change the world, just as soon as he shakes off his hangover.
But George Bailey discovers that being young again is not all it is cracked up to be – and what he actually wants more than anything in the universe is to have his old life back.
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This is the story of how we grow old – how we give up the dreams of youth for something better – and how many chances we have to get it right.
Praise for Starting Over:
‘Funny and touching’ Woman and Home
‘One of the many great things about a Tony Parsons novel is that they always make you feel not just alive, but even more aware of how precious life is … Another modern classic’ Mirror
'Returning to familiar themes of relationships and fatherhood … Tony Parsons has written his most engaging novel to date.' GQ
'From the author of Man and Boy comes this honest and funny story of a man whose life is transformed when he's given a 19-year-old's heart.' Heat
Praise for Tony Parsons:
'A funny, sad love story' Spectator
'Tony Parsons is the master of the bittersweet love story' Red
'Parsons has created a much bigger and more compelling book. It's a major achievement' Mirror
‘Funny, serious, tender and honest…Tony Parsons is writing about the genuine dilemmas of modern life’Sunday Express
‘He takes as his specialist subject contemporary emotional issues which almost every other male writer has ignored’ Guardian
‘Memorable and poignant – nobody squeezes more genuine emotion from a scene than Tony Parsons’ Spectator
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• Tony returns to the subject matter that made him a million-copy bestseller
• Tony is assured of high quality PR coverage in national press and on TV
• Extensive marketing campaign including on-book offers and national press advertising
• Tony Parsons is celebrated for telling relationships as they are: women discover how men’s minds work, and men recognise that he understands them
• With sales worldwide of over 3.5 million books, Tony is a key author for men and women alike – he is also a No. 1 bestseller in hardback and paperback
• My Favourite Wife was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780007226511
Publisert
2009-08-06
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins
Vekt
227 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Tony Parsons is the author of Man and Boy , winner of the Book of the Year prize. His subsequent novels – One For My Baby, Man and Wife, The Family Way, Stories We Could Tell and My Favourite Wife – were all bestsellers. He lives in London.