Bernice Rubens

George Verrey-Smith es un hombre de cuarenta y dos años, casado desde hace diecisiete con una mujer llamada Joy. Todos los domingos sube a su estudio, se maquilla, se viste de mujer y se pone a hacer el crucigrama del periodico. Su mujer lo sabe y no parece especialmente molesta; es mas, es ella quien le presta los vestidos. Sin embargo, este delicado equilibrio se rompera cuando George decida definitivamente transformarse en la "viuda" Emily Price, asistir con un elegante vestido de seda al funeral de un vecino y mudarse secretamente a Brighton… donde, por imprevistas circunstancias, la policia lo buscara como sospechoso de un asesinato.

Amy Evans retained all her life the squat nose of her childhood, stubbed on to her face like a plasticine afterthought, a chin too long for any practical purpose, and eyes so close together that it seemed the sole function of the bridge of her nose was too keep them apart. For comfort she would go down to the beach, where the breeze from the sea blew into her face her share of the beauty to which her brother had so liberally helped himself. The gulls would wait for her to leave, no matter how long she stayed, for they were real gentlemen - the only gentlemen she was ever to meet in her life. Now in her late fifties, Amy faces a struggle on two fronts. Loneliness looms the larger as the chance of finding love grows more remote. Survival depends on the outcome of her search for a love object, and I Sent a Letter to My Love set in Porthcawl on the coast of South Wales, tells the moving and unsentimental story of Amys bold play for happiness, and her dangerous success. The richly comic gifts, the wit and inventiveness that distinguished all Bernice Rubens work are reinforced in this novel by a maturity and depth of compassion for her characters.

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Elected Member winning the Booker Prize, Abacus is reissuing Bernice Rubenss classic novel with a bold new cover.

The 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel. Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in Londons East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents eyes - until at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.

BROTHERS is a heart-breaking record of persecution and inhumanity it is also a testament to human endurance, faith and love.