Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant
The brilliant new novel from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Clothes on Their Backs
Haunting. . compelling right to the very last page * List *
A hint of Brideshead . . . beautiful writing . . . [Grant] has a real knack for observation * Evening Standard *
[An] excellent novel . . . Straight-talking but far from straightforward in its observations, Upstairs at the Party's portrait of an era is convincing, its subtle cynicism regarding the pitfalls of freedom something to mull over * Daily Telegraph *
An enthralling coming-of-age story * Good Housekeeping *
A stylish, ambitious novel * Glamour *
Brilliantly observed . . . determinedly unsettling * Daily Mail *
Fascinating -- John Sutherland * The Times *
One of our best modern authors, a Liverpudlian with a huge imagination. I've never been able to stop reading any of her work once I've started -- Peter Hitchens * Mail on Sunday *
Grant is so accomplished a novelist of recent social history . . . tender and touching -- Suzy Feay * Literary Review *
Upstairs at the Party feels like a darker, more cynical version of Kate Atkinson's Emotionally Weird . . . a very good book: it creates a sense of yearning through a cloud of scepticism * Observer *
I read this deeply felt, deeply moving, novel twice. It's very good -- John Sutherland * The Times *
A wonderfully and perceptively written story, which rings utterly true, and as a consequence lifts the spirits * Guardian *
Grant always writes with incisive elegance and here paints a compelling picture of 1970s England . . . a stunner -- Ian Rankin * Guardian *
Her eye for social history is as sharp as ever -- Suzy Feay * Tablet *
It's Grant's heartfelt emotional complexity that you'll remember long past the last page * Stylist *
There's a thoughtful pessimism about this novel that makes it the finest of elegies for the dreams of 50 years ago -- John Sutherland * The Times *
A hint of Brideshead . . . beautiful writing . . . [Grant] has a real knack for observation * Evening Standard *
[An] excellent novel . . . Straight-talking but far from straightforward in its observations, Upstairs at the Party's portrait of an era is convincing, its subtle cynicism regarding the pitfalls of freedom something to mull over * Daily Telegraph *
An enthralling coming-of-age story * Good Housekeeping *
A stylish, ambitious novel * Glamour *
Brilliantly observed . . . determinedly unsettling * Daily Mail *
Fascinating -- John Sutherland * The Times *
One of our best modern authors, a Liverpudlian with a huge imagination. I've never been able to stop reading any of her work once I've started -- Peter Hitchens * Mail on Sunday *
Grant is so accomplished a novelist of recent social history . . . tender and touching -- Suzy Feay * Literary Review *
Upstairs at the Party feels like a darker, more cynical version of Kate Atkinson's Emotionally Weird . . . a very good book: it creates a sense of yearning through a cloud of scepticism * Observer *
I read this deeply felt, deeply moving, novel twice. It's very good -- John Sutherland * The Times *
A wonderfully and perceptively written story, which rings utterly true, and as a consequence lifts the spirits * Guardian *
Grant always writes with incisive elegance and here paints a compelling picture of 1970s England . . . a stunner -- Ian Rankin * Guardian *
Her eye for social history is as sharp as ever -- Suzy Feay * Tablet *
It's Grant's heartfelt emotional complexity that you'll remember long past the last page * Stylist *
There's a thoughtful pessimism about this novel that makes it the finest of elegies for the dreams of 50 years ago -- John Sutherland * The Times *
Praise for We Had it So Good
'Compelling, perceptive and deeply humane' - Michael Arditti, Daily Mail
'Gripping and stylishly told. Post-war California, Oxford and London are recreated superbly and brightly . . . Grant comes close to creating the perfect novel' - Melissa Katsoulis, The Times
'My only complaint? I fear I may not read a better book all year' - Rosamund Urwin, Evening Standard
'Ambitious . . . Like the best novels, it makes you examine your own moral compass alongside that of its characters'
Linda Grant is author of four non-fiction books and eight novels. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000, the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of York and Liverpool John Moores University. The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and went on to win the South Bank Show Award; The Dark Circle was shortlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction; A Stranger City won the 2000 Wingate Literary Prize. Linda Grant lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844087518 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844087514 |
| Title | Upstairs at the Party |
| Author | Linda Grant |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2015-06-25 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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