Half in Love [Hardcover]

Justin Cartwright (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 18, 2001

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'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 '[Half in Love] is awash with neatly drawn minor characters - and knocks most contemporary fiction into a cocked hat.' -- The Spectator --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and educated in America and at Oxford University. His novel LEADING THE CHEERS won the Whitbread Book Award for 1998. Justin Cartwright lives in north London with his wife and two sons. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 309 pages
• Publisher: Sceptre; First Edition edition (January 18, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340766298
• ISBN-13: 978-0340766293
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,361,195 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A nice read, July 26, 2006

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Sarita (the Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Half in Love (Paperback)

This book is quite interesting as it explores the influence of the press on those living public lives. Sometimes I felt that the writer had a little too much sympathy for the people in the spotlight and therefore pointing a finger at the press. But over all the book was very enjoyable in the way it explores a relationships from the beginning and through hard times.