One for My Baby, Tony Parsons
One for My Baby, Tony Parsons
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One for My Baby

Author: Tony Parsons

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 10 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/09/2011

Categories: Fiction, Romance


Synopsis

Alfie Budd married the love of his life—and then he lost her. He doesn’t believe that you get a second shot at true happiness. Returning to the London he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds his world collapsing around him—his parents’ marriage, his beloved grandmother’s health, and his own ambition to be a writer. He takes comfort in a string of causal affairs while he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man he meets in the park, George Chang.  Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you really like has a child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler called The Slab?  In this story of love, sex, tragedy, family and redemption, one man searches for the courage to love again.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gina

I wonder how much Tony Parsons bases his characters on himself--his books always seem very personal. This one is sweet without being saccharine, and still engaging and very fun. The characters are all very much present and well-formed--even the secondary ones. I liked Alfie although I couldn't get wo......more

Goodreads review by John

One for my baby This just elbows out 'Man and Boy' for me. Here Parson's asks, does anyone really get a second shot at finding love? Shamelessly sentimental, which would be a knock if it didn't work so effectively, Parsons not so much pulls at your heart strings as feeds 'em into a diabolical loom of h......more