**The tragicomic tale of a dysfunctional middle-class family in postwar England from the award-winning author of *Injury Time*.** Though the Second World War has ended, times are anything but peaceful for seventeen-year-old Alan. His father, an entrepreneur who was once able to provide the family
A Quiet Life
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- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ASIN
- B09JGLCXF9
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