Falling Short
Falling Short 'Funny, engaging and beautifully written' M. L. .Frances Pilgrim's father went missing when she was five, and ever since all sorts of things have been going astray: car keys,…
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Falling Short
'Funny, engaging and beautifully written' M. L. .Frances Pilgrim's father went missing when she was five, and ever since all sorts of things have been going astray: car keys, promotions, a series of underwhelming and unsuitable boyfriends . . . StedmanSometimes getting it wrong is the only way to get it right . .
Her mother, whose odd behaviour Frances has long put down to eccentricity, is slowly yielding to Alzheimer's, leaving Frances with some disturbing questions about her father's disappearance, and the family history she's always believed in. Now here she is, thirty-bloody-nine, teaching Shakespeare to rowdy sixth formers and still losing things.But she has a much more pressing problem. Frances could really do with someone to talk to.
Ideally Jackson: fellow teacher, dedicated hedonist, erstwhile best friend. Only they haven't spoken since that