A stunning and unforgettable first novel from an award-winning poet.
Gerard is the author of an acclaimed sequence of novels, August (shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award), I'll Go to Bed at Noon (shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize) and A Curious Earth. He was born in London in 1961, and published several prize-winning collections of poetry before turning to fiction. His latest collection of poetry, We Were Pedestrians was shortlisted for the 2005 T.S.Eliot Prize. He is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and lives in Bath with his family.
A striking and impressive work...one of the most original novels of
the year
*Observer*
Simply one of the finest books about the pains and joys of family
that I have ever read. The life of the Jones family glows like a
barley-sugar window
*Time Out*
A brilliantly written first novel... Spirit of time and place is
lovingly remembered, steeped in nostalgia yet never sentimental...
This is a novelist at work, glorifying in the old-fashioned virtues
of plot and character...rendered in graceful prose that is
beguiling and charming
*Mail on Sunday*
Full of enjoyably acute social observation, August offers an
absorbing account of a now vanished era of English life...
Beguiling
*The Times*
Gerard Woodward's first novel is founded on the brilliantly simple
premise of portraying a family and its inexorable implosion through
a succession of August camping holidays... A strong narrative,
powered by cunningly withheld information and the threat of
crisis
*Independent*
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