Somebody Loves Us All: A Novel
Apr 2010 · Victoria University Press
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Paddy Thompson, speech therapist, newspaper columnist, is fifty and happy. His dark period is behind him: a failed marriage, a career crisis. Now he lives with Helena ('the best thing that ever happened to him'), helps kids with their speech problems, and has moved his mother into the next-door apartment. His life feels sane and settled. So what are these new signs of upset? One of his clients refuses to speak. Helena is under stress at work. His newspaper column has run out of puff. Paddy buys a bicycle. He feels, with a typical metaphorical flourish, that 'one of those great wheels of life had begun a revolution'. Then his mother presents him with the biggest challenge of his life. What follows, in this wonderfully expansive novel, takes Paddy deep into the vortex of family love.
Paddy Thompson, speech therapist, newspaper columnist, is fifty and happy. His dark period is behind him: a failed marriage, a career crisis. Now he lives with Helena ('the best thing that ever happened to him'), helps kids with their speech problems, and has moved his mother into the next-door a...
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Damien Wilkins is the author of eight books in total, including a book of poems and two books of short stories and he edited Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine 1988–2004 (VUP 2005), winner of the Reference and Anthology category in the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. A collection of his short stories For Everyone Concerned was released in June 2007. He is better known however, for his award-winning novels. The Fainter (November 2006) is Damien Wilkins' fifth novel and further underlines why he has been called 'one of the few major writers in this country'. The Fainter was named as one of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007 Best Books in the South East Asia and South Pacific region and was runner-up in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007. Chemistry (March 2002) was a NZ bestseller and was published in NZ by VUP and internationally by Granta Books and Allen & Unwin. Nineteen Widows Under Ash was joint runner-up for the 2001 Deutz Medal in The Montana NZ Book Awards while The Miserables won the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and Little Masters was named by critic Patrick Evans as 'the most substantial work of fiction yet produced in this country'.
Damien Wilkins is the author of eight books in total, including a book of poems and two books of short stories and he edited Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine 1988–2004 (VUP 2005), winner of the Reference and Anthology category in the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. A colle...
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