Half in Love - Tapa dura

Half In Love has the invigorating feel and racing pace of any good love story - Hampstead and Highgate Express Cartwright's tender, ironic, but ultimately optimistic dissection of human love is as shrewd and unshrinking as his conclusions about politics and journalism... Half in Love is a marvel of compression, of characterisation and of tightly cast thought. It is also very moving and utterly gripping, to which the author has cleverly added a sly whiff of the roman-a-clef. - The Times Half in Love is a marvellous novel, serious, moving, compelling, wholly credible. - Weekend Scotsman Intelligent and lucid - The Times Cartwright has an unfashionable ear for sincerity, which ambushes modern readers used to seeing the false and flaky exposed. - Saturday Telegraph This fine novel is also a powerful, irrestibly page-turning love-story. - Harpers & Queen [An] urbanely intelligent story of political and sexual manners - The Sunday Times An absorbing novel... the writing is elegant and crisp - Sunday Telegraph

Richard McAllister, a young government minister, is recuperating in South Africa after being attacked. Whilst out there, he is called back to London because his passionate affair with an actress has become public news. The love affair now becomes impossibly fraught amidst the fame and scandal.