$29.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown / ISBN:9781844086382
We Had It So Good
The exquisitely crafted new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS - the thoughtful and engaging story of a London family from the late sixties to the present.
In 1968 Stephen Newman arrives in England from California. Sent down from Oxford, he hurriedly marries his English girlfriend Andrea to avoid returning to America and the draft board. Over the next forty years they and their friends build lives of middle-class success until the events of late middle-age and the new century force them to realise that their fortunate generation has always lived in a fool s paradise.
Linda Grant is a novelist and journalist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2008 for THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS.
