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After the Party by Cressida Connolly
Category: Fiction
Had it not been for my weakness, someone who is now dead could still be alive. That is what I believed and consequently lived with every day in prison.' It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds ...Show more
After the Party by Cressida Connolly
Category: Fiction
'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...' It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new ...Show more
Bad Relations by Cressida Connolly
Category: Fiction
A TALE OF A TRAGEDY SEEPING THROUGH GENERATIONS, AND A FAMILY FRACTURED BY HISTORY AND DESIRE 'The characters in Bad Relations are so brilliantly real, so wonderfully compelling at their best, and at their worst, that I can't get them out of my head. A wonderful novel' Nina Stibbe'A writer who seems abl ...Show more
Bad Relations by Cressida Connolly
Category: Fiction
A TALE OF A TRAGEDY SEEPING THROUGH GENERATIONS, AND A FAMILY FRACTURED BY HISTORY AND DESIRE - available for pre-order now ‘The characters in Bad Relations are so brilliantly real, so wonderfully compelling at their best, and at their worst, that I can’t get them out of my head. A wonderful novel’ Nina ...Show more
My Former Heart by Cressida Connolly
Category: Fiction
When she grew up, Ruth would say that she could place the day that her mother had decided to go away. She didn't know the actual date, but she recalled the occasion: it was on the afternoon of a wet day, early in 1942, during a visit to the cinema. She thought she could even pinpoint the exact moment at ...Show more
My Former Heart by Cressida Connolly
Category: Fiction
'Unusual and brilliant ! It has similarities to Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child.' Deborah Orr, Guardian A beautifully written novel, which tells a story of love and loss through three generations of a family. When she grew up, Ruth would say that she could place the day that her mother had deci ...Show more
The Rare And The Beautiful: The Lives Of The Garmans by Cressida Connolly
Category: Fiction
Between the wars, BritainâÂÂs beautiful but wild Garman sisters engaged in alliances and intrigues that informed the work of leading artists and scandalised the establishment. âÂÂConnolly writes with great elegance and perception about this ruthlessly sensual family.â â Literary Review. ...Show more
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