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Worth Jon Canter

Worth By Jon Canter

Worth by Jon Canter


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Summary

Richard and Sarah meet in London, fall in love, and after some complications, marry. To escape the rat-race - and their ex-partners - they decide to move to the countryside, and buy a cottage in the Suffolk village of Worth. At first, they struggle to find friends, but then they meet Catherine, who's recently moved into the cottage next door.

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Worth by Jon Canter

Richard and Sarah meet in London, fall in love and, after some complications, marry. To escape the rat-race - and their ex-partners - they decide to move to the countryside, and buy a cottage in the pretty Suffolk village of Worth. At first, they struggle to find friends, but then they meet Catherine, who's recently moved into the cottage next door. As a single woman, she admires their love for each other. As a couple, they admire her uncompromising nature. On weekday nights in sleepy Worth, with nothing to do, the trio's pastime is each other. A delightful friendship ensues. But there are things to Catherine that don't add up. Topics avoided, questions unanswered. She describes a manipulative but never-seen sister, who she says is making her life hell. Richard and Sarah offer advice as best they can, but they are starting to feel uneasy. The rural idyll is beginning to fade. With Richard struggling to find work, Sarah, who's pregnant, takes a job with a woman she meets at a conference - a connection that draws the couple deeper into the life of their neighbour - far deeper than they could ever have imagined. Worth is about friendship, family and the perils of loving your neighbor. It is a fast-paced, wildly entertaining and blackly comic new novel from the inimitable Jon Canter.

Worth Reviews

"The author's comic take on the gap between his characters' aspirations and their shortfall makes for hilarious, snappy reading... A sermon on the perils of the rural dream, it will have estate agents blanching. But as a robust and sharp piece of fiction, it is smart, confident and, in places, eye wateringly upfront" -- Elizabeth Buchan Sunday Times "Powered by Jon Canter's sharp and original wit and his constantly fizzing prose, Worth sets off at a lick and keeps up the pace. An acute and very funny novel about the perils of rural life and of falling a little bit in love with your next-door neighbour" Daily Mail "Brilliantly good - so precise and well-observed and witty, and also one of the few books I've ever read that manages to be both tense and funny" Craig Brown "Canter is a sympathetic writer and one with a keen eye and ear for the absurd. There are sentences on almost every page which raise a smile" -- Allan Massie Scotsman "As an advertisement for either urban or rural living among self-satisfied characters, Worth is a toe-curling horror story; as a cheeky and well-directed poke in said characters' eyes, it's a winner" Independent on Sunday

About Jon Canter

Jon Canter's first novel, Seeds of Greatness, was published in 2006 and chosen to be a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. His second novel, A Short Gentleman, was published in 2008 and dramatised on Radio 4 in 2012, with Hugh Bonneville playing the central character, Robert Purcell QC. His third novel, Worth, came out in 2011. He also writes comment pieces for the Guardian.

Additional information

GOR003663511
9780224090070
0224090070
Worth by Jon Canter
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
2011-08-01
288
N/A
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