To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher

To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher

A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers William Boyd Surefooted and emotionally generous A serious achievement Guardian Masterful Telegraph

‘A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers’ William Boyd, author of The Romantic

‘Surefooted and emotionally generous … A serious achievement … Less a book about the pandemic and more a book about the stories we tell ourselves about the pandemic; billions of stories, fragile, partial, and essential, each one a small but vital act of reclamation and remembrance’ Guardian

‘Interesting and innovative … A different kind of state-of-the-nation novel; an exercise in imagination and empathy born out of a moment of collective crisis’ Daily Telegraph

‘A revelation: a comedy of suburban manners slowed to the point of nightmare’ Spectator

‘Challenges everything we might have taught ourselves to expect from fiction… Wise, ingenious and passionate’ TLS

‘Bears [Hensher’s] hallmark brilliance … Magnificently succeeds in excavating the sedimentary layers of a neighbourhood in lockdown’ Financial Times

‘Eloquently distils the way in which enforced social distancing made us see the world around us through fresh eyes … an impressive addition to the canon of lockdown fiction’ Mail on Sunday

‘Playful, philosophical, sensual, violent and funny … But above all, it’s defiant: an account of confinement that refuses to be confined’ Literary Review

‘A master novelist and prose stylist … Shifts from sublimely evoked reality to terrifyingly, clearly imagined dystopia’ Country Life

‘Masterly in marrying observations of the minutiae of the lives of ‘ordinary’ people with huge, soaring themes’ AnOther Magazine

‘An imaginative tour de forceThe first great lockdown novel, and perhaps the only one we'll need’ Mick Herron, author of Bad Actors

‘Utterly engrossing’ Lissa Evans, author of V for Victory

Philip Hensher has written eleven novels, including The Mulberry Empire, the Booker shortlisted The Northern Clemency, King of the Badgers, Scenes from Early Life, which won the Ondaatje Prize in 2012, The Friendly Ones and A Small Revolution in Germany. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Bath Spa and lives in south London and Geneva.

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ISBN 13	9780008323110
ISBN 10	0008323119
Title	To Battersea Park
Author	Philip Hensher
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2023-03-30
Number of pages	304
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