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In Carry the One, Carol Anshaw
explores the after effects of one night's terrible
trauma on three siblings over 25 years.
In the
early hours of the morning, following a wedding
reception, a car filled with stoned, drunk and sleepy
guests accidentally hits and kills a girl on a dark
country road. For the next twenty-five years, the lives
of those involved are subtly shaped by this tragic
moment.
Through friendships and love affairs,
marriage and divorce, parenthood, addiction, and the
modest calamities and triumphs of ordinary days,
Carry the One shows how one life affects another
and how those who thrive and those who self-destruct are
closer to each other than we'd expect.
'Here's
passion and addiction, guilt and damage, all the
beautiful mess of family life.Carry the Onewill
lift readers off their feet and bear them along on its
eloquent tide' Emma Donoghue
'Her deftly
episodic novel of love, time and off-beat family life is
warm, generous and wise. An enormously engaging novel'
Daily Mail
'Carry The Oneis a
finely crafted novel, full of phrases you want to cut
out and keep, and characters you think you know. It is
delicate in its touch, yet huge in its reach'
Observer
'Superb . . . Anshaw sees her
characters with startling clarity and no small helping
of warmth and humour . . . Anshaw's writing [is] subtle,
bemused, kind and smart, she nails moment after moment .
. .Carry The Oneis a marvellous novel, grown-up,
smart and emotionally intelligent about people who, like
the rest of us, try but mostly fail to keep their ducks
in a row' Patrick Ness, Guardian
'A
tender tale of what happens to ordinary people in
extraordinary circumstances' Marie
Claire
'A funny, vivid and pingingly true
story about longing and the pain of love. Anshaw conveys
beefy emotions and life-changing events with the most
gossamer of touches' Rachel Johnson,
Vogue
'If you love
Jonathan Franzen, you'll love this compelling book'
Entertainment Weekly
Carol
Anshaw is the author of Aquamarine, Seven
Moves, and Lucky in the Corner. She lives in
Chicago. www.carolanshaw.com
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