no ordinary cat - ANTHEA

UK
Atlantic
(Ravi Mirchandani)
US
doubleday
(Gerry Howard)
uK Publication date May 2013 Fiction
Hanya Yanagihara
THE PEOPLE IN THE TREES
In 1950 a young medical school graduate, dr norton A
Perina, joins an anthropological expedition to the remote
Micronesian island of Ivu’ivu, the home, according to
local rumour, and a 4,000 year old creation myth, of a
lost tribe. Completely untouched by modern man, the
‘forbidden island’ as neighbouring islanders call it, is
teeming with unknown, beautiful, and fearsome life
– and a secret that will change the world: the key to
eternal life. norton returns from the expedition claiming
the discovery that will bring him international fame and
a nobel prize. He will also, in time, adopt forty-three
children from the island he has inadvertently destroyed,
and through these children bring on his own destruction.
THE PEoPLE In THE TREES is the story of norton
Perina’s life – from a childhood of loneliness and loss,
to his world-stirring discovery and subsequent downfall
– written in prison, edited and annotated by his friend
and besotted colleague, dr Ronald Kubodera. This
extraordinary debut collapses the line between myth and
reality, the real and the surreal, paying homage to two
masters of our last century, nabokov and Conrad.
UK
Pan Macmillan
(Jenny Geras)
uK Publication 9 May 2013 Fiction
Pippa Wright
THE FOSTER HUSBAND
Kate left her seaside home town of Lyme Regis for the
bright lights of London when she was eighteen, and
never looked back. Why would she? She had it all: the
glamorous career, the big townhouse, the gorgeous
husband. until her marriage failed and she found herself
with nowhere else to go but home.
now she’s unemployed, separated, and holed up in her
dead granny’s bungalow while she works out what to
do with the rest of her life. Worse, she’s forced to share
the bungalow with Ben, the clueless and domestically
challenged fiancé of her bossy sister Prue. Ben is a man in
need of simple instruction. And Kate is a woman in need
of a project. Her own marriage may be beyond saving, but
perhaps she can stop her sister’s husband from making
all the mistakes that doomed her own relationship.
Kate decides that she will secretly train Ben, her foster
husband, as a selfless pre-wedding gift to her sister.
Ben will be the man her own husband should have been.
But Kate may be about to learn a few of her own lessons
about what makes a good marriage.
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