This is Paradise
02 February 2012Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The Alldens live in a ramshackle house in suburban Bath. Don and Emily have four children: confident Liz, satirical Clive, shy Lotte, and Benjamin, the late arrival. Together they take the usual knocks, go to work, go abroad, go to university, go to pieces. Don and Emily stick it out, their strong marriage tested by experience and frustrated by love...
Details
02 February 2012256 pages
9781447204312Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘Beautiful and extraordinary’ The Times
‘Intricately rendered snapshots of family life through the years . . . Eaves has a real gift for nuanced observation’ Observer
‘This is a novel that should resonate with every contemporary family’ Sunday Times
‘Funny, kind and unsparingly honest’ Patrick Gale
