Faithful Place: A Novel PH24-6

Faithful Place: A Novel PH24-6Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen year old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd dumped him probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty two years

And it turns out that being a big

Life's a vacation when you live in the world's wackiest motel

And that's just the start of a huge day

―but exudes a strange charisma

Ulla Thynell's glowing contemporary illustrations accompany each tale

A wife of a cowboy

and his sense of language as jazz

Offering inspiration for all gardeners

hardworking people who don’t expect life to be easy or fair

With vivid depictions of the landscape of the African Serengeti and expressively-drawn characters

including Jim Bowie

Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unraveling fabric of one family