The award-winning author of "The Mulberry Empire" brings us a
sweeping chronicle of ordinary lives profoundly shaped by both the
subtleties of everyday experience and the larger forces of history.
In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to
Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover
household across the street is in upheaval: convinced that his wife
is having an affair, Malcolm Glover has suddenly disappeared. The
reverberations of this rupture will echo through the years to come
as the connection between the families deepens. But it will be the
particular crises of ten-year-old Tim Glover--set off by two
seemingly inconsequential but ultimately indelible acts of
cruelty--that will erupt, full-blown, two decades later.
These lives unfold against the vividly rendered backdrop of
twentieth-century England at the dawn of the Thatcher era:
prosperity for some and disenfranchisement for others, which will
have a drastic impact on both families.
Expansive and deeply felt, "The Northern Clemency" shows Philip
Hensher to be one of our most masterly chroniclers of modern
English life, and a storyteller of virtuosic gifts.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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