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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 07/03/2019
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ISBN: 9781784707248
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
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Weight: 245g
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RRP: £8.99
Ordinary People
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
NOMINATED FOR THE SOUTH BANK SKY ARTS AWARD
'I am shouting from the rooftops to anyone who will listen about this book. It’s so so good – realistic and funny and so truthful it almost winded me' Dolly Alderton, The High Low
Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning. Melissa has a new baby and doesn't want to let it change her. Damian has lost his father and intends not to let it get to him. Michael is still in love with Melissa but can't quite get close enough to her to stay faithful. Stephanie just wants to live a normal, happy life on the commuter belt with Damian and their three children but his bereavement is getting in the way.
Set in London to an exhilarating soundtrack, Ordinary People is an intimate study of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, friendship and ageing, and the fragile architecture of love.
'I just finished Ordinary People by Diana Evans and it is utterly exquisite. What a writer she is - the depth of her insight, the grace of her sentences. WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING ALL THIS TIME NOT READING HER?'
Elizabeth Day, Twitter
‘God this book is fantastic’ Pandora Sykes
A NEW YORKER, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
NOMINATED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 07/03/2019
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ISBN: 9781784707248
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
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Weight: 245g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"Diana Evans is a lyrical and glorious writer; a precise poet of the human heart"
Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
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"Thoughtful and intelligently observed... Evans's delicate prose weaves issues of racial identity and politics into the narrative so that they never feel heavy-handed...a deftly observed, elegiac portrayal of modern marriage, and the private – often painful – quest for identity and fulfilment in all its various guises"
Observer
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"Achieves a moody, velvety atmosphere, as though events were unfolding under amber-tinted bulbs...offers a precise sketch of the British black middle class, with a daring fifth-act twist"
Katy Waldman, New Yorker
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"Evans gives us romance going cold with just as pitiless a precision as Flaubert in Madame Bovary... Evans's prose is magnificent: it's as if she measured each sentence, trimmed the excess weight, then fitted it into place"
Daily Telegraph
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"One of the very many things that makes this book exceptional is the even-handed sympathy and unflinching fidelity with which Evans charts the changing weather both of her protagonists’ emotions and family life. She excels at dialogue and she’s also a soulful lyrical chronicler of London in all its moods and guises"
Daily Mail
