Single Mother on the Verge - Brossura

Roberts, Maria

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141037776 ISBN 13: 9780141037776

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2009

Riassunto

Maria is twenty-nine years old. She is a single mother and lives on a council estate in Manchester. She's also a chronic day-dreamer. One day she'd like to marry a beautiful man with a huge income to look after her and Jack, her nine-year-old son.

The only problem is that her current boyfriend, Rhodri, a chickpea-loving vegan eco-warrior, has turned his back on career ladders. Neither does he believe in monogamy. And so Maria finds herself unexpectedly juggling one, two, three lovers . . .

When Damien, Jack's abusive father, who threatened more times than Maria cares to remember to kill her makes an unwelcome reappearance, she gets a wake-up call. Will Maria find a wonderful father figure for Jack by the time she turns thirty?

A surprisingly humorous memoir with heartbreaking and unexpected moments, Single Mother on the Verge is a seductive and extremely touching read.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Maria Roberts's life has rambled from a career debut as a bingo-caller by way of a brief period of homelessness to her current life as a freelance theatre critic, arts writer and family journalist. Her blog www.singlemotherontheverge.com won her The Manchester Literary Festival's Blog of the Year Award in 2007.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141037776
• ISBN 13: 9780141037776
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336