The Clothes On Their Backs
Linda Grant
Grant provides the best of both SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ** 'This is a vivid, enjoyable and consistently unexpected novel' THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ** 'Her heroine, Vivien Kovaks, slightly resembles a rawer, angrier version of one of Anita Brookner's dutiful daughters ... such is the richness of Grant's plotting that the story encapsulates many untold narratives' THE TIMES ** 'THE CLOTHES O...
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Grant provides the best of both SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ** 'This is a vivid, enjoyable and consistently unexpected novel' THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ** 'Her heroine, Vivien Kovaks, slightly resembles a rawer, angrier version of one of Anita Brookner's dutiful daughters ... such is the richness of Grant's plotting that the story encapsulates many untold narratives' THE TIMES ** 'THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS is a return to the form of Grant's first and best novel, The Cast Iron Shore. Gripping and written with keen understatement, it manages to be a domestic coming-of-age novel... It is, in other words, that rare thing, a novel of big ideas that never forgets to tell a story' Rachel Cooke, EVENING STANDARD ** 'A meticulously textured and complex novel' Penny Perrick, SUNDAY TIMES ** So artfully construced that you barely feel you're reading at all, so fluid and addictive is the plot. But like all the best boks, the serious ideas it raises stay with you for a long time afterwards ... This is a wonderful,
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