Author:Danielle Steel
Time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future!
For April Wyatt, turning thirty is not what she had expected. She’s single, with no interest in changing that. Her successful restaurant in downtown New York consumes every ounce of her passion and energy. Ready or not, though, April’s life is about to change, in a tumultuous discovery on the morning of her milestone birthday.
April’s mother Valerie is a popular TV personality. Since her divorce, she has worked tirelessly to reach the pinnacle of her career. But she’s having trouble equating her age with how she feels, and all the hours with personal trainers, top hairdressers and plastic surgeons can’t hide the fact that she is turning sixty – and the whole world discovers it on her birthday.
It is also Jack Adams’ birthday – the most charismatic sports announcer and hall-of-fame football star on TV, a man who has his pick of desirable younger women. But he fears his age may finally be catching up with him when he wakes up on his fiftieth birthday needing an emergency visit to the chiropractor…
As these three very different people celebrate their birthdays, they discover that life itself is a celebration – and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise…
Guaranteed to cure birthday blues, forever!
—— HEATFull-blooded, dramatic, exciting.
—— ObserverPlaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama.
—— New York TimesOutstanding
—— Vanity FairSubtle, moving ... has the pace and excitement of a legal drama
—— The ForwardA beautifully scrupulous, intricately detailed novel about joy and despair ... like a great photograph, it seems to miss nothing, and to catch its subject in all his complexity
—— Charles Baxter, author of The Soul ThiefThe former junkie and 'hardcore troubadour' has fought his demons and found God. Now he wants to show us how it's done
—— The TimesEarle seems to have little trouble expanding his range from a three-minute song to a 300-page narrative... And though the novel comes no closer to establishing the facts of Hank Williams's death, it certainly reveals a good deal of truth behind it
—— Alfred Hickling , GuardianA witty, heartfelt story of hope, forgiveness and redemption
—— BooklistAchingly funny, touching and fizzing with intelligence, this book will have you laughing out loud even as you fear for the state of world politics
—— Tash AwA delicious bon-bon of a book, skewering Pakistani society.Great good fun
—— . - Daniyal Mueenuddin, author of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, shortlisted for the National Book AwardIn Makkai's picaresque first novel, Lucy, a 26-year-old children's librarian, "borrows" her favorite patron, bright, book-loving 10-year-old Ian, after his fundamentalist parents enroll him in a program meant to "cure" his nascent homosexuality.
—— BooklistHis biggest, most ambitious and most engaging novel to date
—— The TimesPsychological acuity, a wonderful linguistic precision and the ability to make beautiful accordance between form and content via thoughtful narrative experiment. Gods without Men is a step further along the road towards the full realisation of Kunzru's early promise. It makes undeniable the claim that he is one of our most important novelists . . . As large and cruel and real as life
—— Independent on SundayAmbitiously eclectic . . . smartly sharp social detail, high-fidelity dialogue, vivid evocation of place . . . ironic wit and exuberant guyings of paranormal gobbledegook
—— The Sunday TimesFuelled by an energetic intelligence. Along with a love of big ideas came narrative zest, verbal and comic flair, and an acute eye for contemporary mores both East and West . . . Gods with Men marks another new and bold departure . . . This really is Kunru's great American novel . . . Compulsively readable, skilfully orchestrated, Kunzru's American odyssey brings a new note into his underlying preoccupation with human identity'
—— IndependentBeing able to create a vivid sense of place is one of the hallmarks of a quality literary writer, but few could have done so as brilliantly as Hari Kunzru in his latest novel Gods without Men
—— Big IssueIntensely involving . . . Gods Without Men is one of the best novels of the year
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