Product Description

The Booker Prize-winning Novel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84662 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Synopsis
A married man returns alone to the seaside town where he used to holiday as a child. A multi-layered story of marriage, death, seduction and separation unfolds. Holiday is a novel about lives in crisis'

From the Back Cover
Edwin Fisher is on holiday at the English seaside - but this revisiting of childhood haunts is no ordinary holiday. Edwin is seeking to understand the failure of his marriage to Meg, but it turns out that her parents are staying at the same resort - whether by accident or design - and are keen to patch up the relationship. As the past and his enigmatic wife loom larger, deeper truths emerge and the perspective shifts in unexpected ways.

This is an extremely subtle story, a consummate portrait of English provincial life told with all Stanley Middleton's artistry and depth of feeling. It was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974.

`At first glance, or even at second, Stanley Middleton's world is easily recognizable… The excellence of art, for Middleton, is an exact vision of real things as they are. And because he is himself so exact an observer, his world at third glance can seem strange and disturbing or newly and brilliantly lit with colour.' A.S. Byatt

About the Author
Stanley Middleton was joint winner of the Booker Prize with his novel Holiday. He lives in Nottingham, where most of his novels are set. Her Three Wise Men, his forty-fourth book, is available in Hutchinson hardback.