Unexploded
Author: MacLeod, Alison
ISBN: 9780141016078
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 28 May 2014
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
Exquisitely written and heart-wrenchingly moving, a Man Booker-longlisted novel of fear, prejudice and love - set in Brighton in 1940
May, 1940. Wartime Brighton. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches.
It is a year of change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, and Evelyn, desperate to feel useful, begins reading to some of the prisoners. One of them is Otto Gottlieb, a 'degenerate' German-Jewish. As Europe crumbles, Evelyn's and Otto's mutual distrust slowly begins to change into something else, which will shatter the structures on which her life, her family and her community rest.
ISBN: 9780141016078
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 28 May 2014
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
Exquisitely written and heart-wrenchingly moving, a Man Booker-longlisted novel of fear, prejudice and love - set in Brighton in 1940
May, 1940. Wartime Brighton. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches.
It is a year of change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, and Evelyn, desperate to feel useful, begins reading to some of the prisoners. One of them is Otto Gottlieb, a 'degenerate' German-Jewish. As Europe crumbles, Evelyn's and Otto's mutual distrust slowly begins to change into something else, which will shatter the structures on which her life, her family and her community rest.
