description: Two sisters, Alice and Martha Hutchings, move to London in their twenties. Alice has always wanted to be an actress and is finishing a post-graduate acting course whilst Marthanever before having professed any outward interest in the subjectone day announces she has had an audition at RADA and, after two attempts, has been accepted on the course. Meanwhile, Alice is rejected from an acting career, loses two waitressing jobs, and is sacked from a nursing home for getting into bed with a 90-year-old who had asked her to hug him...In despair she finds and visits a therapistand then begins an affair with him. Lifes vicissitudes and the ebb and flow of family life are played out with great subtlety and wit from the acclaimed author of The Oversight.
language: English
title: Nothing to Be Afraid of : A Novel
titlecomplete: Nothing to Be Afraid of : A Novel
ratings_count: 16
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: RSL Encore Award
publisher: Pan MacMillan