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  • Published: 2 August 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099445043
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $35.00

Judge Savage

  • Tim Parks



'Judge Savage is a work of tremendous learning and subtlety' - Observer

Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge - because of his ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of political convenience - it's time for Daniel Savage to settle down. Perhaps his marriage is happy enough after all. Teenage children require a father's attention. His career demands the most responsible behaviour. Day by day Judge Savage presides over those whose double lives have been exposed. He must be above suspicion.

But why does his daughter refuse to move to their spacious new house? Why does a young Korean woman keep phoning him to beg for help? As the most tangled lives are ironed out in court, Daniel Savage's own existence descends into a mess of violence and confusion. English society has fragmented into an incomprehensible public gallery where every face conceals a different culture. And those with whom we have the greatest intimacy are suddenly the most frighteningly mysterious.

  • Published: 2 August 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099445043
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $35.00

Praise for Judge Savage

A book for our times... A moving, important novel

Irish Independent

The world that Parks evokes is densely textured, a patchwork or memories, desires and declarations that brilliantly captures the complexity of consciousness

Sunday Times

A dashing mixture of thriller, social comedy and dysfunctional family saga... A virtuoso piece, a tour de force, highly enjoyable

Spectator

A grimly affecting novel of adultery and family disintegration... A brilliant, even contentious, novel of bleak humour and undeniable power

Evening Standard

Parks is a master of emotional complexity

Sunday Telegraph