Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/01/2013
ISBN: 9780099566069
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 202g
RRP: £8.99
Leonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after his father's death. He moves in with his distant brother William and his family, hoping to renew their friendship but learning to drop his expectations of brotherhood. William is a former lecturer and activist who now runs informal meetings with ex-students. He is defiantly unworldly and forever questioning.
When a young student follows William's arguments to a shocking conclusion, it appears William has already set his own fate in motion. Against a backdrop of tabloid frenzy, Leonard can only watch as William embraces the danger in the only way he knows how, which threatens to consume not only himself, but his entire family.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/01/2013
ISBN: 9780099566069
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 202g
RRP: £8.99
Intense, rewarding and bracingly serious
Profoundly beautiful, cathartic writing.
A fine study of the nature and strength of family ties and the morality, or otherwise, of conforming where it matters
This beautifully written composition does that rare thing, of provoking free thought, while scrutinising the far-reaching repercussions of such rebellious activity
Harvey's slow, intense thoughtfulness feels positively Woolfean at times. She thinks deeply, and writes beautifully about these thoughts.