EAN: 9780241327739

AFTER THE PARTY - CRESSIDA CONNOLLY KARTONIERT ...

'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 world of idealistic beliefs and seemingly innocent friendships.
Fevered talk of another war infiltrates their small  privileged circle  giving way to a
thrilling solution: a great and charismatic leader  who will restore England to its former
glory.At a party hosted by her new friends  Phyllis lets down her guard for a single moment 
with devastating consequences. Years later  Phyllis  alone and embittered  recounts the
dramatic events which led to her imprisonment and changed the course of her life
forever.'Wonderfully subtle and compelling' Linda Grant'Uncanny  evocative  atmospheric' Sunday
Times'Connolly is a terrifically subtle writer... [she] slyly sweeps her readers into the
period drama as tensions tauten between families and social classes' Daily Telegraph'Wonderful
tragicomic... beautifully researched' The Times

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