So Long at the Fair

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After a long wait, Christina Schwarz's third novel, a brilliant and unputdownable drama of two generations of families and their terrible secrets, has arrived.

As the novel opens Jon is receiving hot e-mail messages from his girlfriend, Freddi, while his wife, Ginny, works outside in the garden. If Jon and Ginny had been able to have the children they wanted, perhaps Freddi wouldn't have had the impact she did. It was Ginny who gave Jon a chance of happiness after his tough upbringing with his bitter mother Marie and drunk father Bud. Surely Jon and Ginny could still be happier than Marie and Bud ever managed to be

Back in the 1960s, Marie and Bud were in love and their future was bright. Jealousy, betrayal and revenge got in the way, though, and drove the perfect couple into a nightmare marriage. Can the cruel mistakes of the past finally be left behind, or are their consequences to reverberate for ever into future generations

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'Schwarz shows the fragility, complexity and danger inherent in love' -- Kirkus Reviews '!Schwarz is interested in... the kind of emotional causality that produces jealousy and revenge. She observes these things with a combination of delicacy and ruthlessness, exploring the machinery of incident, accident and coincidence' -- Sydney Morning Herald

Author Bio

Christina Schwarz grew up in Wisconsin, USA, and graduated from Yale University. She worked as a teacher before becoming a writer. She lives with her husband and family in California.