Upstairs at the Party
$27.54
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2015
Summary
‘If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don’t know how to explain.’
In the early seventies, a glamorous and androgynous couple known as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas, they …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844087518 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844087514 |
| Author: | Linda Grant |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 221g |
| Dimensions: | 124mm x 197mm x 21mm |
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Fascinating
[An] excellent novel … Straight-talking but far from straightforward in its observations, Upstairs at the Party’s portrait of an era is convincing, its subtle cynicism regarding the pitfalls of freedom something to mull over - Daily Telegraph
One of our best modern authors, a Liverpudlian with a huge imagination. I’ve never been able to stop reading any of her work once I’ve started - Mail on SundayI read this deeply felt, deeply moving, novel twice. It’s very good - The TimesA wonderfully and perceptively written story, which rings utterly true, and as a consequence lifts the spirits - GuardianAbout The Author
Linda Grant
Linda Grant is author of four non-fiction books and eight novels. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000, the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of York and Liverpool John Moores University. The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and went on to win the South Bank Show Award; The Dark Circle was shortlisted for the 2017 Women’s Prize for Fiction; A Stranger City won the 2000 Wingate Literary Prize. Linda Grant lives in London.
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