Ordinary people / Diana Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Diana, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Husband and wife--Fiction.

Husband and wife.

History.

Presidents.

United States.

Mother and child--Fiction.

Mother and child.

Parenting--Fiction.

Parenting.

Adultery--Fiction.

Adultery.

Fathers--Death--Fiction.

Fathers.

Fathers--Death.

Presidents--United States--Election--2008--Fiction.

United States--History--21st century--Fiction.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

329 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, 2018.

Summary:

South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn't want to let it change her but, in the crooked walls of a narrow Victorian terrace, she begins to disappear. Michael, growing daily more accustomed to his commute, still loves Melissa but can't quite get close enough to her to stay faithful. Meanwhile out in the suburbs, Stephanie is happy with Damian and their three children, but the death of Damian's father has thrown him into crisis - or is it something, or someone, else? Are they all just in the wrong place? Are any of them prepared to take the leap? Set against the backdrop of Barack Obama's historic election victory, Ordinary People is an intimate, immersive study of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, friendship and aging, and the fragile architecture of love. With its distinctive prose and irresistible soundtrack, it is the story of our lives, and those moments that threaten to unravel us.--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1784742163

9781784742164

9781784742157

1784742155

OCLC:

990952153