Name: Paradise News
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9781560544500

David Lodge

After flying to Hawaii to reunite his querulous parent with a long-forgotten, bed-ridden aunt, Bernard Walsh discovers the possibilities of life and love through a chance encounter. (General Fiction).

Paradise News

Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.

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