After the Party - Hardcover

Connolly, Cressida

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1643131265 ISBN 13: 9781643131269

Publisher: Pegasus Books, 2019

Synopsis

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.

Powerful, poignant, and exquisitely observed, After the Party is an illuminating portrait of a dark period of British history which has yet to be fully acknowledged.

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Review:

Uncanny, evocative. Connolly skillfully sets scenes in pared yet atmospheric prose.

A wonderfully subtle and interesting account of the Mosley women, with a compelling voice.--Linda Grant, Booker Prize nominated author of 'The Clothes on Their Backs'

Profound and moving and completely original, with a storyline that is completely satisfying. It'll be one of those novels that stays in my mind forever. It's a work of art.--Craig Brown, New York Times bestselling author of 'Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret'

Wonderful, tragicomic, beautifully researched.

Connolly expertly evokes a changing nation, and a woman whose life is altered forever.

Connolly's novel achieves the rare feat of at once summoning that foreign country, the past, then returning us, uncomfortably, to a contemporary Britain with a burgeoning fatherland complex.--Will Self

Eye-opening. Connolly skillfully chronicles some of the little-known consequences to those opposed to Britain's involvement in WWII, resulting in a vivid, introspective tale.

About the Author:

Cressida Connolly writes for Vogue, the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, the Guardian, and numerous other journals. She is the author of three books: The Happiest Days, which won the MacMillan/PEN Award; The Rare and the Beautiful; and My Former Heart. Cressida is the daughter of writer Cyril Connolly. She lives in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1643131265
• ISBN 13: 9781643131269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272