Dear Evelyn by Kathy Page
Born between the wars in working-class South London, Harry is a scholarship boy. Full of literary dreams, he visits Battersea Library and discovers Evelyn, a magnetic girl from a narrow street not far from his own. Dear Evelyn is an unconventional love story of two people shaping each other as they, their marriage and their country change.
`Disconcerting. profoundly convincing' Nell Stevens, Times Literary Supplement ---- 'Page charts the emotional shifts that take place over the course of their marriage, from first flush of love to old age, with subtlety and sensitivity.' Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist ---- `Marvellously well-crafted ... I can't remember the last time I was so compelled, impressed and unsettled by the emotional world of a novel.' Sarah Waters on The Story of My Face ---- `Alphabet is not just highly readable, but one of the strongest, most eloquent, most tightly constructed novels of the year.' Sunday Telegraph on Alphabet ---- `Sometimes novelists go too far - and sometimes they manage to demonstrate that too far is the place they needed to go.' Time Out on Alphabet ---- `Page's writing . . . is lit with an immediate sense of period, summoning images which are by turns softly painterly, sharply filmic or as murky as those first television images of the moon landing.' Times Literary Supplement
Kathy Page is the British-Canadian author of seven previous novels, including The Story of My Face (longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002) and Alphabet (nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in Canada in 2005), as well as Canada's Giller Prize-shortlisted story collections Paradise & Elsewhere (2014) and The Two of Us (2016). Her new novel, Dear Evelyn, will be published in 2018 by And Other Stories in Europe and Biblioasis in North America. Born and raised in the UK, she now lives on Salt Spring Island, near Vancouver in Canada.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911508281 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911508288 |
| Title | Dear Evelyn |
| Author | Kathy Page |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | And Other Stories |
| Year published | 2018-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Commended for Giller Prize 2016, Commended for Giller Prize 2014, Commended for Orange Prize 2002 |
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