He Wants
by:
Alison Moore (author)
Lewis Sullivan, an RE teacher at a secondary school, is approaching retirement when he wonders for the first time whether he ought to have chosen a more dramatic career. He lives in a village in the Midlands, less than a mile from the house in which he grew up. He always imagined living by the...
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Lewis Sullivan, an RE teacher at a secondary school, is approaching retirement when he wonders for the first time whether he ought to have chosen a more dramatic career. He lives in a village in the Midlands, less than a mile from the house in which he grew up. He always imagined living by the sea. His grown-up daughter visits every day, bringing soup. He does not want soup. He frequents his second-favourite pub, where he can get half a shandy, a speciality sausage and a bit of company.
When an old friend appears on the scene, Lewis finds his routine and comfortable life shaken up.
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B00SO59LI0
Publish date: 2015-02-05
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Whatever I wanted, it wasn't this clumsily constructed, overly contrived but largely empty story. Judging from the critical acclaim this novel received, I'm in the minority in seeing this particular emperor as naked. "He Wants" was The Observer Book of the Year in 2014, which asserted, ‘Moore ...
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