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We Had It So Good
Linda Grant
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Description for We Had It So Good
Paperback. * Linda Grant's 'best novel yet' (Financial Times) is a thoughtful and engaging story of a London family from the late sixties to the present Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 284.
Born to hardworking immigrant parents in sunny suburban Los Angeles, Stephen Newman never imagined that he would spend his adult life under the grey skies of north London, would marry Andrea for convenience and stay married, and would watch his children grow into people he cannot fathom. Over forty years he and his friends have built lives of comfort and success, until the events of late middle age and the new century force them to realise that they have always existed in a fool's paradise.
Born to hardworking immigrant parents in sunny suburban Los Angeles, Stephen Newman never imagined that he would spend his adult life under the grey skies of north London, would marry Andrea for convenience and stay married, and would watch his children grow into people he cannot fathom. Over forty years he and his friends have built lives of comfort and success, until the events of late middle age and the new century force them to realise that they have always existed in a fool's paradise.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844086399
SKU
V9781844086399
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for We Had It So Good
Compelling, perceptive and deeply humane
Michael Arditti
Daily Mail
Gripping and stylishly told. Post-war California, Oxford and London are recreated superbly and brightly . . . Grant comes close to creating the perfect novel
Melissa Katsoulis
The Times
My only complaint? I fear I may not read a better book all year
Rosamund ... Read more
Michael Arditti
Daily Mail
Gripping and stylishly told. Post-war California, Oxford and London are recreated superbly and brightly . . . Grant comes close to creating the perfect novel
Melissa Katsoulis
The Times
My only complaint? I fear I may not read a better book all year
Rosamund ... Read more