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Sarah Butler

Sarah Butler has two novels published by Picador in the UK and with fourteen international publishers: Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love (2013) and Before The Fire (2015). In November 2018, she published a novella, Not Home, written in conversation with people living in unsupported temporary accommodation in Manchester. Her new novel, Jack and Bet, will be published by Picador in Spring 2020. Sarah's work explores ideas of home, belonging, identity, family, and urban landscapes. She is currently a CHASE Scholar in Creative Writing at the Open University and lectures part-time in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Sarah also explores the relationship between writing and place through participatory projects. Recent writing residencies include writer-in-residence on the Central line; at Great Ormond Street Hospital; and Stories From The Road – a project exploring personal stories of Oxford Road, Manchester.

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Title:: Jack & Bet
Written by:: Sarah Butler
Read by:: Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 7
Duration:: 7 hours 30 minutes
Published:: March 05 2020
Available Date:: March 05 2020
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781529044898
Genres:: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda/Macmillan audio

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Even the longest marriages have their secrets ...

Jack Chalmers is a man of few words, married to a woman of many. He and Bet have been together for seventy years – almost a lifetime – and happily so, for the most part. All Jack and Bet want is to enjoy the time they have left together, in the flat they have tried to make their home. Their son Tommy has other ideas: he wants them to live somewhere with round-the-clock care, hot meals, activities. Bet thinks they can manage just fine. When they strike up an unlikely friendship with Marinela, a young Romanian woman, Bet thinks she has found the perfect solution – one that could change Marinela's life as well as theirs. But this means revisiting an old love affair and confronting a long-buried secret she has kept hidden from everyone, even Jack, for many years.