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Theresa Smith at the Court of Heaven

Polly Walshe

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Description:Theresa Smith lives in Leonard Cohen Court, an upmarket block of retirement flats with an array of upmarket residents. A widow with two feisty forty-something daughters and a quirky granddaughter, Theresa can't really keep up. Badly dressed and reluctant to socialize, unable to afford a holiday, she loves puzzles, books, daytime TV and chocolate biscuits. She also loves bumping into her neighbour, the self-effacing Roger Cusp, but rarely seems to manage it. But Theresa's not at home today. She's just woken up to find herself stranded on the outskirts of Basingstoke in a so-called Life Enhancement Clinic. Is this some kind of offbeat holiday?Well if it's not a holiday, what is this place, and what is Life Enhancement exactly? It seems that Theresa, who suffers from a debilitating lung disease, has signed herself up for a revolutionary new kind of death. Does she want it? She did sign up for it, certainly, but why? She signed up purely because in her poor state of health she thought she wanted it, or rather that she ought to want it, and because everyone around her, her family included, seemed to think the same. Everyone seemed to think it was a great idea for a woman in her situation. Now she realizes she’s made a terrible mistake and longs for nothing more than to get back to her Eezy-Tip chair and her weed-tufted kitchen window box.Here, it suddenly strikes her, is her problem: all her life she's tried to be good but the wrong sort of good which is only obedience. But thank heavens her granddaughter Poppy’s here by her bed – someone to talk to at least. And any moment now her daughter Abigail will arrive to take her home – won’t she?A snapshot of the day after tomorrow or dystopian fiction...you decide.What they said about Polly Walshe's award-winning first novel, The Latecomer: 'A brilliant analysis of a friendship' (Sunday Times); 'A very stylish, slick and amusing book of manners' (Good Housekeeping); 'accomplished and very enjoyable' (Scotland on Sunday); 'I enjoyed it enormously and would recommend it to all' (The Bookseller); 'a compulsive comedy' (She); 'waspishly clever novel' (Cosmopolitan); 'Savagely entertaining, this is a finely-drawn study of society in miniature' (Daily Mail).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Theresa Smith at the Court of Heaven. To get started finding Theresa Smith at the Court of Heaven, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 309

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Createspace

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ISBN: 1530831059

Description: Theresa Smith lives in Leonard Cohen Court, an upmarket block of retirement flats with an array of upmarket residents. A widow with two feisty forty-something daughters and a quirky granddaughter, Theresa can't really keep up. Badly dressed and reluctant to socialize, unable to afford a holiday, she loves puzzles, books, daytime TV and chocolate biscuits. She also loves bumping into her neighbour, the self-effacing Roger Cusp, but rarely seems to manage it. But Theresa's not at home today. She's just woken up to find herself stranded on the outskirts of Basingstoke in a so-called Life Enhancement Clinic. Is this some kind of offbeat holiday?Well if it's not a holiday, what is this place, and what is Life Enhancement exactly? It seems that Theresa, who suffers from a debilitating lung disease, has signed herself up for a revolutionary new kind of death. Does she want it? She did sign up for it, certainly, but why? She signed up purely because in her poor state of health she thought she wanted it, or rather that she ought to want it, and because everyone around her, her family included, seemed to think the same. Everyone seemed to think it was a great idea for a woman in her situation. Now she realizes she’s made a terrible mistake and longs for nothing more than to get back to her Eezy-Tip chair and her weed-tufted kitchen window box.Here, it suddenly strikes her, is her problem: all her life she's tried to be good but the wrong sort of good which is only obedience. But thank heavens her granddaughter Poppy’s here by her bed – someone to talk to at least. And any moment now her daughter Abigail will arrive to take her home – won’t she?A snapshot of the day after tomorrow or dystopian fiction...you decide.What they said about Polly Walshe's award-winning first novel, The Latecomer: 'A brilliant analysis of a friendship' (Sunday Times); 'A very stylish, slick and amusing book of manners' (Good Housekeeping); 'accomplished and very enjoyable' (Scotland on Sunday); 'I enjoyed it enormously and would recommend it to all' (The Bookseller); 'a compulsive comedy' (She); 'waspishly clever novel' (Cosmopolitan); 'Savagely entertaining, this is a finely-drawn study of society in miniature' (Daily Mail).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Theresa Smith at the Court of Heaven. To get started finding Theresa Smith at the Court of Heaven, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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