Afterwards Book

Paperback. Pub. Date: October 2007 Pages: 352 in Publisher: Vintage Books USA To love someone. Need you not know everything about them When Alice and Joseph meet. they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship She is a nurse. He a painter and decorator; both are still young and hopeful of each other. but each ings with them an emotional burden. Alice's father has been a yawning absence all her life. and her beloved grandmother - who helped raise her - has recently died. For his part. Joseph refuses to speak about his army experiences in Northern Ireland and Alice suspects that his general reticence hides an even more deeply troubled past. When her widowed grandfather begins to tell Joseph about his own RAF experiences in l950s Kenya - stories he had shared only with his wife - something still raw is tapped in Joseph; his reaction to the older man's unburdening o...Read More