Louise Dean, Author . Harcourt $23 (307p) ISBN 978-0-15-101174-2
What keeps an unhappily married couple together? In her impressive debut, long-listed for the 2004 Man Booker, Dean dissects two hollow unions against the sultry backdrop of a Caribbean resort. George and Dorothy Davis, an English couple married...
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Louise Dean, Author . Harcourt $23 (374p) ISBN 978-0-15-101253-4
Set in Belfast during the Troubles, Dean's accomplished second novel (after Becoming Strangers
) is an affecting and well-researched depiction of the political and social strife of Northern Ireland in the winter of 1979. John Dunne, a 20-year...
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Louise Dean, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $24 (318p) ISBN 978-0-15-101385-2
In this unrelentingly bleak tale, Dean (This Human Season
) explores the lives of two couples and how precarious sanity can be. Richard, an English pharmaceutical representative selling psychotropic drugs in Africa, and his wife, Valérie, an...
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Louise Dean, Riverhead, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59448-779-8
Dean's very British fourth novel (after The Idea of Love) is a grimly hilarious family saga in which an old curmudgeon faces his mortality. Ken Goodyew, a working-class bloke who believes he is at the end of his life, sets out to settle his affairs.
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