Rules for Visiting

Author(s): Jessica Francis Kane

Fiction

Staff notes: A gardener in her 40s looks at her life and decides to seek out three friends from her schooldays. This is a beautiful, gentle book with an intimate narrative voice, sharing thoughts, flashes of dry humour, poignancy, and lots of heart-smiles. Loved it. - Andrea


'Midway through my fortieth year, I reached a point where the balance of the past and all it contained seemed to outweigh the future, my mind so full of things said and not said, done and undone, I no longer understood how to move forward.'


May is at a crossroads. Although her career as a gardener for the university is flourishing, the rest of her life has narrowed to a parched routine. Her father is elderly, her brother estranged, and she keeps her neighbours at arm's length. The missing element, she realises, might be friendship. As May sets off on a journey to visit four neglected friends one-by-one, she holds herself (and them) to humorously high standards, while at home she begins to confront the pain of her past and imagine for herself a different kind of future. May's quest becomes an exploration of the power, and perhaps limits, of modern friendship.

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General Fields

  • : 9781783784653
  • : Granta Books
  • : Granta Books
  • : March 2020
  • : ---length:- '19.8'width:- '12.9'units:- Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jessica Francis Kane
  • : Paperback
  • : 2007
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : 304