Paint your wife
Jones, Lloyd, 1955-2015
Book
The next morning Alma showed up with his tin case of pencils and his sketchbooks. She showed him through to the sitting room. She had an idea that a sitting was a formal occasion and in preparation had gone around the room straightening cushions and pulling off furnishing covers. She had dressed herself up in her Sunday best, a black skirt and red blouse. She had been toying with putting a flower in her hair. Long ago, when the men were away at the war, Alma began painting the women of the town. Alice, his favourite, returned his attentions, and when her husband George came home from the war, he set out to prove his love and reclaim his wife by moving a hill to improve the view for her - with a spade and wheelbarrow.
Main title:
Paint your wife / Lloyd Jones.
Author:
Jones, Lloyd, 1955-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2015.London : John Murray, 2015.
Collation:
306 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Auckland, N.Z.: Penguin, 2004.
ISBN:
9781473612525 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTIONGEN
Language:
English
BRN:
1684423