
Ordinary Love & Good Will
Ordinary Love gives voice to a mother, loving but unsure of her love's value, who, in leaving her powerful husband, fears that she has done her children irrevocable harm. Good Will is the story of a father - a relentlessly self-sufficient man determined to divorce himself from a materialistic world. But in his single-mindedness, he does not see the damage he is causing to those around him until it is too late.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Year
- 2017
- ISBN-13
- 9781509844210
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Family relationshipsDivorceParenthood
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1989)
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