Book description
Abbie Fenton wants a baby. Her husband Felix, not unaware of the
thunderous ticking of Abbie's biological clock, wants to oblige but
their home has still to be blessed. Cue the usual round of doctors,
tests, probes and scans - all to no avail.
So Abbie - adopted at birth - decides that if she can't have a child
then she must at least discover whose child she is. Soon, she and
Felix are caught up in a make-or-break search for family, identity and
meaning. And little do they know quite where the journey will take
them ...
The White Stuff announces Simon Armitage, one of our nation's
leading and award-winning poets, as one of our greatest novelists.
'Superb, very impressive, grimly funny ... I lay on the floor and
howled with laughter' Independent
'With plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, touchy-feely bits and some
choice observations about the things that men do, Armitage gives
Hornby a run for his money' Daily Mirror
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963, and is regarded as
one of the leading poets of his generation. After university he worked
as a probation officer in Manchester; he also presented Radio 4's poetry
series Stanza for five years. His first prose book ALL POINTS NORTH was
published by Viking in 1998. His first novel LITTLE GREEN MAN was
published by Viking in 2001. His most recent projects include a
translation of THE ODYSSEY for Radio 4, and a screenplay for the BBC. He
lives near Huddersfield.
