A Virtuous Woman (VMC) - Tapa blanda

Críticas

Full of fantastically gritty metaphors, and with strains of class and race stretching like a fragile elastic band... a book that will change your dreams if not your life. (OBSERVER)

An exquisitely realised piece of writing. (Elizabeth Buchan, MAIL ON SUNDAY)

Reseña del editor

Ruby Pitt rejects the quiet life planned for her by her adoring family and runs off with John Woodrow, a migrant worker who turns out to be a cruel and violently abusive liar. When he dies in a street brawl, Ruby takes up with Blinking Jack Stokes, a quiet, uneducated, but highly capable tenant twenty years her senior. He is surprised as anyone when she agrees to marry him.

Kaye Gibbons conjures up a vivid portrait of an unlikely, but successful marriage set against a land that connects past troubles and present loss with future hopes.