Gillian Freeman

`Brilliant study of neo-Nazi anti-Semitism ... Gillian Freeman is among the finest contemporary novelists.` - Brigid Brophy, New Statesman `Undoubtedly the best of her novels ... an exact and finely observed account of the lunatic right-wing fringe in Britain. I recommend this very strongly.` - Oxford Mail `Gillian Freeman`s perception of psychological and sociological drives is combined with an ability to communicate them in suspenseful entertainments.... The implications grip the imagination.` - Kirkus Reviews `Horrifying reconstruction of how a new Hitler might arise.` - Times Literary Supplement Vincent Wright is a failure. Now in his mid-thirties, he`s stuck in a dead-end job as a bank clerk and still lives with...

Дата выхода: январь 2014

"Gillian Freeman is among the finest contemporary novelists." - Brigid Brophy, New Statesman "It is altogether an astonishing novel for a young woman to have written. The story describes, convincingly and touchingly, the brief, sensual affair ... between a sailor on leave and a young schoolteacher ... their frank sexual attraction for each other is given a warm and compelling context ... a novel that has the ring of truth." - Times Literary Supplement "This novel is successful in an honest and unpretentious way." - The Guardian When Freda Mackenzie, an eminently respectable young schoolteacher with a stockbroker father and a background of tennis, riding and university, meets Derek Smith, a big blond sailor from the East...

Дата выхода: январь 2014