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The Clematis Tree (Abridged, Audio cassette, Abridged edition)
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Mark and Claire seem an ideal couple. He is an accountant, she the
daughter of a successful businessman. They live in a comfortable
middle-class village in Surrey. When the novel opens they are
giving a garden party to celebrate their daughter's baptism. During
the party their son Jeremy is knocked down on the road outside when
chasing after an escaped rabbit. He survives, but to all intents as
a vegetable. Unable to speak, only grunt, incontinent, spoon-fed
and propped up each day in front of a television. The once ideal
marriage is troubled by the stress, the pressure caused by Jeremy's
state of health. Mark holds down his job only because the firm for
whom he works gets substantial business from his father-in-law.
Claire stays at home, looks after her declining son and young
daughter and neglects her husband. Mark suggests a holiday on their
own. But Claire refuses, because she worries about leaving Jeremy
in care. Mark goes to Portugal on his own and meets a young widow
with children on the beach. He is tempted to pursue an affair. He
considers divorce, but worries about the guilt of leaving Claire
with their crippled son. When her younger sister, Sally, an MP,
launches a Private Members' Bill to legalise euthanesia, the Press
assumes she is doing it for her sister and besiege Mark and
Claire's home. All the time Jeremy's stage of health is in slow
decline. But is Jeremy the glue that holds the marriage together,
however tenuously? Ann Widdecombe uses the analogy of the dead
tree, once the glory of its garden, and now the host for a clematis
that once a year covers it in flowers. Jeremy, she says is like the
tree, passive; the clematis is the parental love that embraces him.
In the climax to the book, Jeremy's life reaches a crisis and he
dies. What will happen to Mark and Claire's marriage now? Will they
be up to the challenge of rebuilding their marriage without their
son?
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Imprint: |
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2000 |
Authors: |
Ann Widdecombe
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Readers: |
Sorcha Cusack
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Dimensions: |
140 x 108 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Audio cassette
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Cassettes: |
2 |
Running time: |
180 minutes |
Edition: |
Abridged edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7528-3798-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-7528-3798-2 |
Barcode: |
9780752837987 |
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