Divorcing Jack (novel)

Divorcing Jack (novel)
Divorcing Jack  
Divorcing Jack
Author(s) Colin Bateman
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Arcade Publishing
Publication date 1995
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 264 pp
ISBN 1559703105
OCLC Number 32466710
Dewey Decimal 823/.914 20
LC Classification PR6052.A773 D58 1995


Divorcing Jack is a 1995 novel by Colin Bateman.

Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the novel's events follow a turbulent period in the life of married, cynical and usually drunk journalist Dan Starkey. Dan's wife Patricia leaves him after a drunken party in which he kisses student Margaret. What follows is a darkly comical tale of murder and mystery.

The novel was awarded the 1994 Betty Trask Prize by the Society of Authors, for the best debut by a writer under the age of 35. Bateman himself adapted the book for the screen in David Caffrey's 1998 film starring David Thewlis.


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