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Ann Widdecombe SIGNED The Clematis Tree HB Book 2000 1st Edition 3rd Impression
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- Publication Year
- 2000
- Special Attributes
- Signed, Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780297645726
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Clematis Tree
- Item Height
- 242mm
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group
- Topic
- Books
- Item Width
- 165mm
- Item Weight
- 632g
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Mark and Claire seem an ideal couple. He is an accountant, she the daughter of a successful businessman. They live in a comfortable middle-class village in Surrey. When the novel opens they are giving a garden party to celebrate their daughter's baptism. During the party their son Jeremy is knocked down on the road outside when chasing after an escaped rabbit. He survives, but to all intents as a vegetable. Unable to speak, only grunt, incontinent, spoon-fed and propped up each day in front of a television. The once ideal marriage is troubled by the stress, the pressure caused by Jeremy's state of health. Mark holds down his job only because the firm for whom he works gets substantial business from his father-in-law. Claire stays at home, looks after her declining son and young daughter and neglects her husband. Mark suggests a holiday on their own. But Claire refuses, because she worries about leaving Jeremy in care. Mark goes to Portugal on his own and meets a young widow with children on the beach. He is tempted to pursue an affair. He considers divorce, but worries about the guilt of leaving Claire with their crippled son. When her younger sister, Sally, an MP, launches a Private Members' Bill to legalise euthanesia, the Press assumes she is doing it for her sister and besiege Mark and Claire's home. All the time Jeremy's stage of health is in slow decline. But is Jeremy the glue that holds the marriage together, however tenuously? Ann Widdecombe uses the analogy of the dead tree, once the glory of its garden, and now the host for a clematis that once a year covers it in flowers. Jeremy, she says is like the tree, passive; the clematis is the parental love that embraces him. In the climax to the book, Jeremy's life reaches a crisis and he dies. What will happen to Mark and Claire's marriage now? Will they be up to the challenge of rebuilding their marriage without their son?
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Orion Publishing Group
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9780297645726
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Book Title
The Clematis Tree
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
352 Pages
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Item Height
242mm
Item Width
165mm
Item Weight
632g
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United Kingdom
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