Douglas Kennedy’s strength is his uncanny ability to create the most compelling of female characters in his books and here in A Special Relationship, he shows that strength and aptitude to mind blowing affect. The narrator Sally is an American journalist, based in London, who will have you utterly transfixed, take you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions, and the pace of the story is almost thriller-like at times. It’s all there: love, hate, destiny, triumph, and tragedy but above all good writing.
September 2009 Guest Editor Emily Barr on A Special Relationship by DOUGLAS KENNEDY
I picked up A Special Relationship on my way to a writers’ retreat a few years ago and consequently had to be much sterner with myself than I had expected about actually getting on with my own writing. Kennedy is amazingly skilled at drawing the reader in and keeping them turning the pages.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Sally Goodchild, a thirty-seven-year-old American journalist, suddenly finds herself pregnant and married to an English foreign correspondent, Tony Hobbs, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo. From the outset Sally's relationship with both Tony and London is an uneasy one - as she finds her husband and his city to be far more foreign than imagined. But her problems soon turn to nightmares when she discovers that everything can be taken down and used against you.
A Special Relationship features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
A Special Relationship is available in Paperback (b Format)
A Special Relationship was written by Douglas Kennedy and published by Arrow Books Ltd
A Special Relationship has 500 pages
£17.09
