The Consequences Of Marriage
By (Author) Isla Dewar
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
9th August 2007
28th June 2007
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Family life fiction
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
823.914
Paperback
384
Width 126mm, Height 197mm, Spine 25mm
264g
When James McElroy saw the ad for a lodger with 'Bibi Sanders' in a smart Edinburgh street, he pictured a glamorous young landlady with whom he would form a meaningful and deep relationship. But Bibi's in her seventies. She's led a full life, including marriage to the domineering and difficult Callum, now deceased, and raised six children.She's not sure what to make of James and suspects - rightly - a troubling secret in his past. When Bibi sets out to re-visit the past for the final time via a tour of Britain in her rather unexpected Volvo sports car, James decides to go with her. It's a journey full of surprises and revelations which will change them both - and, in Isla Dewar's inimitable way, entertain and enlighten every reader.
'The Consequences of Marriage" will no doubt further broaden Dewar's book club fan base and cement her place among Scotland's increasingly strong showing of female authors' -- Brisbane News 20061121
Isla Dewar was born in Edinburgh. She wrote articles for magazines and newspapers for many years before she wrote her first novel, KEEPING UP WITH MAGDA, in 1995. She lives in Fife with her husband, a cartoonist; they have two sons.