Arms Wide Open
By (Author) Tom Winter
Little, Brown Book Group
Corsair
17th April 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
352
Width 201mm, Height 136mm, Spine 24mm
258g
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 findTom Winter delights with a deadpan turn of phrase - Daily Mail
This is a bittersweet joy of a book. - Hello! MagazineTom has always made his living from words, first as an editor and writer in magazine publishing, and then as an advertising copywriter and speech writer. His debut novel, Lost & Found, was published in five languages. He lives in Berlin, with a potted plant and a variety of noisy neighbours.