Things We Nearly Knew

Author: Jim Powell

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  • : $19.00 AUD
  • : 9781509842438
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Picador
  • : February 2019
  • : 18.99
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  • : Jim Powell
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Barcode 9781509842438
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A haunting new novel by the acclaimed author of The Breaking of Eggs and Trading Futures. There's a bar at the crossroads on the way out of town. Or the way in, depending on whether you're coming or going. Marcie and her husband have run it for years. After thirty years of marriage, there aren't many secrets left between them. Couples often say that, don't they? But it's not always true.Arlene showed up in the bar one day, not long before Franky Albertino came back to town, hoping to find a man called Jack. Franky was hoping that people might have forgotten the mess he'd left behind him the first time around. Franky's problem has always been women. Women and money. What Arlene's problem is isn't clear. It's obvious she has a history, but who doesn't?As Arlene gets closer to finding Jack - her father? her lover? - the bar becomes the scene of a great unravelling; secrets buried a lifetime ago are dragged into the light. In Things We Nearly Knew, Jim Powell invites us to consider how much we know about the people we love and asks: would you want to know the truth?