The northern clemency: a novel
"1974. Husbands and wives, arm in arm, stroll through an invincible suburb after a summer party, secure and hopeful. Over the next twenty years, everything will change for them, and for England." "Set in Sheffield, the novel charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours the Sellers family, newly arrived from London. The day the Sellerses move in there is a crisis across the road: Malcolm Glover has left home, convinced …
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- Full title :The northern clemency : a novel / by Philip Hensher.
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"1974. Husbands and wives, arm in arm, stroll through an invincible suburb after a summer party, secure and hopeful. Over the next twenty years, everything will change for them, and for England." "Set in Sheffield, the novel charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours the Sellers family, newly arrived from London. The day the Sellerses move in there is a crisis across the road: Malcolm Glover has left home, convinced his wife is having an affair. The consequences of this rupture will spread throughout the lives of both couples and their children. Ten-year-old Tim Glover never quite recovers from his mother's public cruelty and the amused taunting of fifteen-year-old Sandra Sellers, childhood crises that will come to a head twenty years later. In the background, England is changing: from a land of fire and industry to a gleaming landscape of shop fronts and chain restaurants, a shift particularly marked in the North with the miners' strike of 1984, which has a dramatic impact on both families."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2009.
- Edition:1st U.S. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:597 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781400044481, 1400044480
- oclc:ocn316268725
- LC Classification:PR6058.E554
- Dewey Decimal:823/.914
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