A Thousand Pardons
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Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point and it takes one afternoon - and a single act of recklessness - for Ben to deal the final blow to their marriage, spectacularly demolishing everything they built together.
Helen and her teenage daughter Sara leave for Manhattan where Helen takes a job in PR - her first in many years - and discovers she has a gift for spinning crises into second chances. But can she apply her professional talent to her personal life?
A Thousand Pardons is an elegant, audacious, gripping and sharply observed novel about a marriage in ruins and a family in crisis; about the limits of self-invention and the seduction of self-destruction.
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Praise for A Thousand Pardons
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A Thousand Pardons is that rare thing: a genuine literary thriller. Eerily suspenseful and packed with dramatic event, it also offers a trenchant, hilarious portrait of our collective longing for authenticity in these over-mediated times.
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Guilt, redemption and the American dream of starting afresh are Pulitzer-Prize nominee Jonathan Dee's themes in this thoroughly enjoyable comic tale. - Daily Mail
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The American novelist who has his finger on the pulse. - BBC Front Row
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Deliciously readable. - Irish Independent
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Slickly written and great entertainment. - Evening Standard
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Part relationship drama, part thriller, this is one of our favourite books of the year so far. - Bella
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...shrewdly observed and compulsively readable. - Literary Review
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With his sixth novel, Pulitzer finalist Dee has written a page turner without sacrificing a smidgen of psychological insight. What a triumph. - Kirkus (Starred Review)
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