Justin Cartwright (1945–2018)
Author of The Promise of Happiness
About the Author
Justin Cartwright was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1945. He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford. Before becoming an author, he worked in advertising and in film and documentary directing. He wrote 13 novels including Interior, Look at It This Way, White Lightning, Half in Love, The Promise show more of Happiness, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven by Water, Other People's Money, Lion Heart, and Up Against the Night. In Every Face I Meet won a Commonwealth Writers Prize and Leading the Cheers won the Whitbread Novel Award. He also wrote three non-fiction books entitled Not Yet Home, This Secret Garden, and Oxford Revisited. He died on December 3, 2018 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Justin Cartwright
Half in Love 1 copy
The president gardener 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Cartwright, Justin James
- Birthdate
- 1945-04-20
- Date of death
- 2018-12-03
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- South Africa
- Birthplace
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Education
- University of Oxford (Trinity College)
University of the Witwatersrand - Occupations
- novelist
director
advertising - Awards and honors
- Order of the British Empire
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- Works
- 24
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 1,731
- Popularity
- #14,850
- Rating
- 3.4
- Reviews
- 57
- ISBNs
- 129
- Languages
- 6
In fact, this became a very satisfying read, cleverly crafted and shockingly real. I have another one of his books to read and now look forward to it.