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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE AWARD 2025

'Life-affirming' JANICE HALLETT
'Full of compassion and hope' ELISSA SOAVE
'A masterpiece' CAROLE HAILEY

Margaret
- an elderly widow who just wants to be left with her memories and her quiet, contained life.

Claire - newly divorced, downsizing into the neighbourhood and way too busy to mend a broken heart.

Gerard - a tearaway twelve-year-old who hates his name but loves his little brother and sister. Gerard is a bright kid, but trouble always follows him. No one really knows what it's like at home; he's used to carrying a lot on his small shoulders.

Gerard doesn't always make good decisions. One morning, he makes a very bad one, upending not just his world, but the lives of Margaret and Claire too. Both heart-breaking and life-affirming, This Bright Life is a story of messy lives, second chances and the many hands it takes to build a boy.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE AWARD 2025

'Life-affirming' JANICE HALLETT
'Full of compassion and hope' ELISSA SOAVE
'A masterpiece' CAROLE HAILEY

Margaret
- an elderly widow who just wants to be left with her memories and her quiet, contained life.

Claire - newly divorced, downsizing into the neighbourhood and way too busy to mend a broken heart.

Gerard - a tearaway twelve-year-old who hates his name but loves his little brother and sister. Gerard is a bright kid, but trouble always follows him. No one really knows what it's like at home; he's used to carrying a lot on his small shoulders.

Gerard doesn't always make good decisions. One morning, he makes a very bad one, upending not just his world, but the lives of Margaret and Claire too. Both heart-breaking and life-affirming, This Bright Life is a story of messy lives, second chances and the many hands it takes to build a boy.

Über den Autor

Karen Campbell is the author of nine novels. A former police officer, then Glasgow City Council press officer, she won the Best New Scottish Writer Award in 2009. She also teaches creative writing and was recently Writer in Residence at Dumfries and Galloway Council. Originally from Glasgow, she now lives in Galloway.

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Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 304 S.
ISBN-13: 9781837261185
ISBN-10: 1837261180
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Campbell, Karen
Hersteller: Canongate Books Ltd.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 197 x 126 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Karen Campbell
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.03.2026
Gewicht: 0,214 kg
Artikel-ID: 134845153