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In Tessa Hadley’s eighth novel, middle-aged suburban housewife Phyllis Fischer abandons a conventional buttoned-up existence with civil servant husband Roger and her children and takes off in pursuit of freedom in swinging sixties London. Soon she’s shacked up with Nicky, a pot-smoking, Ginsberg-quoting rake and trying to square her hazy idealism with the reality of a life that seems increasingly botched and broken. In a novel that disavows easy answers, Hadley offers a compassionate, poignant and sensitive insight into the quiet compromises people make to survive in a deeply compromised world.
Chaired by Claire Malcolm.
‘Achingly moving and real’ Guardian
‘A beautiful and exciting novel’ The Times
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