Veronica: Or the Two Nations - Hardcover

Caute, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241127394 ISBN 13: 9780241127391

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1989

Synopsis

In this novel about incest, politics and self-destruction, a family catastrophe confronts Michael Parsons, a lonely, yet unscrupulous boy, with the knowledge that the object of his sexual passion is also his sister.

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Michael Parsons never knew he had a half-sister until Veronica arrived on the eve of the Second World War – and not until his parents were dead did he discover the full truth about her parentage. A lonely, timed yet unscrupulous fifteen-year old boy is perhaps not best equipped to deal with the knowledge that the object of his sexual passion is also his sister – and the effects of that private passion are deeply but fatally hidden in the public man who emerges, forty years later, as a senior figure in Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet
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'Defiantly intelligent and an instantly absorbing read'
NEW STATESMAN

'A glorious exception, a British political plot you can get through without falling over horse-laughing. What knocks the dust off it is the extraordinary incest story it comes wrapped around and the way Caute presses the illicit union to speak allegorically of working-class narcissism, self-serving legislation, and of the unspeakable private motives of our masters.'
OBSERVER

'A political thriller and a great deal more besides...plenty of entertainment value and a properly orchestrated climax'
FINANCIAL TIMES

'Intelligent, provoking, above all beautifully structured'
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Edition details

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241127394
• ISBN 13: 9780241127391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320