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Half in Love Book
Justin Cartwright's sixth novel, Half in Love, follows on from the success of Leading the Cheers, which won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1998. It opens in Cartwright's native South Africa where a British MP, Richard McAllister is recovering from a knife attack and researching the life of his great-uncle, a major and horse vet in the Boer War. Not only does the attack reveal Richard's mortality, but also his complex morality--he believes that he somehow deserved the assault: "Being stabbed was to find without seeking". He is called back to London when the press leak the story of his affair with Joanna Jermyn,a famous actress and star of the movie "Half in Love"--and a married woman.What makes Cartwright's protagonists lively, multi-faceted and compelling is their acute and ashamed self-… read more...
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