For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for laying bare the interior lives of her characters. In each of her novels, Miller has written with exquisite precision about the experience of grace in daily life the sudden, epiphanic recognition of the extraordinary amid the ordinary as well as the sharp and unexpected motions of the human heart away from it, toward an unruly netherworld of upheaval and...
For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our m...
Penetrating, intelligent, humane, funny too ... Smart and powerfully alive' Tessa Hadley'Superb' Daily Mail'A poignant page-turner, delving deep into our most intimate relationships' Evening StandardAnnie is the great love of Graham's life. Here they are in late middle-age, the photographer and the bookseller, so mismatched and yet so well-matched.
Theirs is a happy marriage of nearly thirty years - and even the happiest of marriages, Graham tells himself, have their secrets. Then the unthinkable happens, and suddenly Annie is alone, stumbling in...
Penetrating, intelligent, humane, funny too ... Smart and powerfully alive' Tessa Hadley'Superb' Daily Mail'A poignant page-turne...