The Promise of Happiness, which was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and sold over 140,000 copies Received extensive, glowing coverage across the board in hardback Combined sales of the hbk and tpb were higher than combined sales of any of Justin Cartwright's previous hbk and tpb sales

'Other People's Money is wise, droll and beautiful fiction' David Mitchell 'What a great read this is. Cartwright assembles a wonderful cast of characters in this masterpiece of a comic novel' Observer 'A high-class piece of literary entertainment' Spectator 'A delicately patterned novel about the heroic search for happiness and its ultimate fragility. The comfortable middle-class setting and faintly fairytale ending belie a portrait of family life in which concealment and compromise are never far away. Quietly moving' Financial Times

Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, the acclaimed White Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung and, most recently, To Heaven By Water. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London.