Unexploded is Alison MacLeod's compelling novel of love and
prejudice in wartime Brighton. It is longlisted for the Man Booker
Prize 2013. May, 1940. 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 of Brighton. It is a
year of tension and change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the
enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, while Philip is
gripped by the rumour that Hitler will make Brighton's Royal
Pavilion his English HQ. As the rumours continue to fly and the
days tick on, Evelyn struggles to fall in with the war effort and
the constraints of her role in life, and her thoughts become tinged
with a mounting, indefinable desperation. Then she meets Otto
Gottlieb, a 'degenerate' German-Jewish painter and prisoner in her
husband's internment camp. 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. Love collides with fear, the power of art with the
forces of war, and the lives of Evelyn, Otto and Geoffrey are
changed irrevocably. Praise for Alison MacLeod: "Unexploded is an
unforgettable book. With exquisitely researched and rendered
detail, the author plunges us into the panic and paranoia of war,
fusing international politics, national politics and family
politics in her powerful study of hypocrisy, oppression, cultural
misunderstanding and desire". (Bidisha). "Alison MacLeod is a
strikingly original voice. Her stories create intimate worlds and
make the reader live in them with an intensity which is haunting,
disturbing and above all beguiling". (Helen Dunmore). "MacLeod's
range - spanning the movingly real to the mysteriously surreal - is
excitingly, imaginatively realised and unified in awareness of the
dark menace of love's uncertainty". (Metro). Alison MacLeod was
raised in Canada and has lived in England since 1987. She is the
author of three novels, The Changeling, The Wave Theory of Angels
and Unexploded, and of a collection of stories, Fifteen Modern
Tales of Attraction. Unexploded was longlisted for the Man Booker
Prize for Fiction 2013. She is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at
Chichester University and lives in Brighton.
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