Sitting Practice
By (Author) Caroline Adderson
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
18th October 2004
New edition
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.54
352
Width 128mm, Height 21mm, Spine 192mm
242g
Ross loves Iliana. And, to his amazement - she is sane, gorgeous and met him in entirely undignified circumstances - she loves him too.
He asks her to marry him. She says yes. Life is improving by the minute. They have the most romantic wedding imaginable - an overgrown meadow, fabulous food cooked in pits by the groom himself, twelve regretful exes and two hundred and fifty merry drunken guests dancing till dawn. And then, a fortnight later, Ross is driving Iliana home, takes his eyes off the road for a second, and the trouble starts.Explicit, funny and touching Adderson does it so well that few could match [her] for skill and wisdom elegant, snappy, beautifully crafted - Independent on Sunday
Adderson writes very well plenty of humour a satisfying, moving read - Julia Darlingan intense high of love, lust and limitless promise...sublime...Adderson's first novel brought her prizes and accolades as one of Canada's most promising writers. Her second novel delivers handsomely on that promise. Cadence and pacing are sure-footed, dialogue is pitch-perfect, the unfolding story utterly absorbing. This is a writer with all the talents required to keep on delivering - Quill and Quire Big themes such as sexuality, religion, family ties and love are deftly introduced and developed, and Ross and Iliana are so believable and engrossing that you re holding your breath for them by the end - City LifePraise for A HISTORY OF FORGETTING: 'A moving, marvellous book' - EveCaroline Adderson has won or been shortlisted for several major awards. Her first novel, A HISTORY OF FORGETTING, was widely acclaimed; this is her second. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.