The Lent Jewels

by David Hughes

A profound and moving meditation on mortality, faith, sex and love.

David Hughes explores the themes of tragic bereavement, love and loss, intermingling his own experience, both as child and father along with the story of a man known only as “Walter”, author of the pornographic My Secret Life . With a dexterity of style and abundance of sympathy, Hughes has produced a profoundly uplifting masterpiece on this complex subject.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

David Hughes was a British novelist. His best known works included The Pork Butcher (Constable, 1984) for which he was awarded the WH Smith Literary Award in 1985 and But for Bunter, published as The Joke of the Century in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hu... . See also http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4443...

Reviews

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

2002 notebook: a strange essay like book, a reflection on the Bishop who lost 5 children within a fortnight during the Black Death, and entwines this, about death and duty, with a look at Walter whose erotic memoirs are set in the same place, unthinking sex only. Odd.