- Booker Prize 2004 · Shortlist
I'll Go to Bed at Noon
I'll Go to Bed at Noon
Gerard Woodward (born 1961)
English editions
Written in EnglishI'll Go to Bed at Noon
W. W. Norton · United States · 17 September 2005 · Paperback · 446 pages
I'll Go to Bed at Noon
Chatto & Windus · United Kingdom · 2004 · 437 pages
I'll Go to Bed at Noon
Vintage · United Kingdom · 7 July 2005 · Paperback · 448 pages
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North London, 1970. Colette Jones knows about drinking from experience and still enjoys a night at the Red Lion, but now drink seems to be taking over her family. Janus, her eldest and the family favourite, has thrown away his promise as a pianist; his nights out with Bill, Janus's brother-in-law, a butcher at the supermarket who believes alcohol will bring on the workers' revolution, end in fights and arrests. Colette's brother, newly a widower, is sinking into gin and home-brewed wine. When her husband starts drinking too, she decides something must be done and banishes the son she adores from home. Continuing the Jones family story from an earlier novel, the book veers between comedy and grief.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom, 1970s
- First published
- 2004
- Author's age
- 43 when first published
- ISBN
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9780701171186 (Chatto & Windus, United Kingdom)
9780099286936 (Vintage, United Kingdom)
9780393328004 (W. W. Norton, United States)
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