We Had It So Good

By LINDA GRANT

RRP: $36.99, Virago

This exquisitely crafted new novel from award-winning writer Linda Grant is a thoughtful and engaging story of a London family from the late sixties to the present.

In 1968 Stephen Newman arrives in England from California. Sent down from Oxford, he hurriedly marries his English girlfriend Andrea to avoid returning to America and the draft board.  Over the next forty years they and their friends build lives of middle-class success until the events of late middle-age and the new century force them to realise that their fortunate generation has always lived in a fool's paradise.

Entwining three generations’ secrets and longings, We Had It so Good is a subtle and richly layered novel that tells many truths, from the fragility of our dreams to how little we know of our parents until it is too late. It is a novel that illuminates our times, as only Linda Grant can.

About the Author

Linda Grant is a novelist and journalist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2008 for The Clothes on Their Backs.

Praise for The Clothes on Their Backs: 'Her novel is at once a beautifully detailed character study, a poignant family history and a richly evocative portrait of the late 1970s.' - Independent.
 

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