Jude Cook

Repenting at leisure: Early Sobrieties, by Michael Deagler, reviewed

Back with his family in suburban Philadelphia after seven years of solid boozing, Dennis Monk tries to make amends for past misdemeanours. But will he succeed?

Michael Deagler.
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  • Early Sobrieties

    Michael Deagler

    Hutchinson Heinemann, pp. 272, £16

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