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"1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish t...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: | "1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. When the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family's upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them..." -- |
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| Item Description: | "First published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 287 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780063137776 0063137771 |
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