May 2014 Book of the Month.
A novel of family, identity and aging. Jack and Meredith are non-identical twins of a single mum now rapidly falling into dementia. Their father died before they were born. Both siblings are at a disastrous stage in their lives, Meredith is in the throes of divorce, Jack with a career falling apart. In the midst of all this chaos they discover their father is not dead. How they cope with this and the trauma within their own lives is sensitively portrayed in a poignant, bitter-sweet read.
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Jack and Meredith are non-identical twins; the only similarity between them is their lives rapidly falling apart. Jack’s high-flying career in advertising has crashed and burned. Meredith’s world is also crumbling – a decomposing yogurt in her fridge now a symbol of her failed marriage. Her children, Jemima and Luke, offer little support, too consumed with the worlds of online dating and amateur taxidermy.
All their lives, Jack and Meredith believed their father to be dead. One day, a throwaway comment leads Jack to question this, but with their mother fading ever-deeper into the grip of dementia, answers are hard to come by. As revelations start to untangle, the twins soon learn that what you seek is not always what you find…
Arms Wide Open features in the following genres: Family Drama, Books of the Month, Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations, General Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories
Arms Wide Open is available in Paperback
Arms Wide Open was written by Tom Winter and published by Corsair an imprint of Constable and Robinson
Arms Wide Open has 352 pages
