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   Jan 10, 2018 · After The Party is a historical novel at the times of WW2. The main character is Phyllis and it’s told from her perspective in different time periods. The book opens in 1979 as Phyllis gets out of prison. Then, we go back to 1938, when she moves back to England from abroad, with her husband and 3 kids.

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   • Author: Cressida Connolly

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   Sep 21, 2021 · Her second novel, After the Party, was selected as a Waterstones Book of the Month and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2019. Connolly was interviewed by Mariella Frostrup about her novel After the Party for Open Book on Radio 4 and the novel was selected on Radio 4’s A Good Read. In 2020, Connolly was elected a fellow of the Royal ...

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   After the Party. Written by Cressida Connolly Review by Larry Zuckerman. Phyllis Forrester lives a sheltered life in Sussex in 1938, devoted to her children and taking care to appease her tyrannical husband, Hugh. Phyllis’s politically active sister involves the Forresters in a nationalist party that appeals to many people in their well-to-do ...

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   Dec 13, 2021 · The book is set in 1938, right on the cusp of World War Two. Phyllis and her husband Hugh, and their children Julia, Frances, and Edwin, have been living in South America as Hugh works for British Rubber, and have then been in Belgium for a little while, but have no returned to England. To begin with, they stay with one of Phyllis's sisters ...

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   Recommendations from our site. “Cressida Connolly’s writing is gently remorseless, gently relentless. She never cops out. With courage and skill, she sees her story through to its bitter end and, as happens with the best historical fiction, leaves the reader asking ‘what if’.”.

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   Sep 7, 2018 · Cressida Connolly's flawless new novel After the Party, for all its darkness, seems suffused with the "soft, buttery" light of an English summer afternoon. But in June of 1938, infernal shadows lengthen. Ms. Connolly is a master, revealing character while sustaining an effect of lightness and ease.

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   • Hailed by the Times as 'wonderful, tragicomic' and 'beautifully researched', After the Party is an elegant, poignant and knowing portrait of a hidden world within England on the eve of war. Through one family's downfall she reveals the misplaced beliefs of those who chose to overlook the truth of Nazi evil.

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   • My Former Heart was a Spectator's Book of the Year. The bestselling After the Party was a Waterstone's Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Award for Historical Fiction. It was named a Spectator Book of the Year. The novel describes a woman's return to England of the late 1930s and her growing involvement, through her sisters, in a murky political group.

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   Cressida Connolly's flawless new novel After the Party, for all its darkness, seems suffused with the "soft, buttery" light of an English summer afternoon. But in June of 1938, infernal shadows lengthen. Ms. Connolly is a master, revealing character while sustaining an effect of lightness and ease.

   • Author: Cressida Connolly