Let Me Be Frank With You

<p><b>‘A work of understated power, intelligence and not a little mischief’ <i>INDEPENDENT</i></b><br><b>‘Funny, touching and profound’ <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i></b><br><b>‘Another seemingly effortless Ford masterpiece’ <i>DAILY MAIL</i></b><br><br><b>A FRANK BASCOMBE COLLECTION</b><br><br>Christmas brings Frank Bascombe to the Default Period of his life. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived – seemingly but not utterly – amid the devastations of Hurricane Sandy, which has left countless lives unmoored, and is remarkably the perfect occasion for Ford and Bascombe to relay four Christmas stories.<br><br>With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, Ford ranges over the full complement of universal subjects: ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle – the tumult of the world we live in.</p>