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  1. 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.

  2. Feb 18, 2019 · After the Party is the debut novel by Australian author Cassie Hamer, and it is one stand out of a debut. When cleaning up after her daughter's 5th birthday party, Lisa finds a child hiding in the back of the yard. It soon becomes obvious the mother isn't just late in picking up her child, but rather has left 6 year old Ellie in Lisa's care.

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  3. 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’.”.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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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  6. 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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  8. 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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