The Dark Circle

The Dark CircleShortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 'Extraordinarily affecting' Alex Preston, Observer 'This is a novel whose engine is flesh and blood, not cold ideas . . . Grant brings the 1950s that odd, downbeat, fertile decade between war and sexual liberation into sharp, bright, heartbreaking focus' Christobel Kent Guardian All over Britain life is beginning again now the war is over but for Lenny and Miriam, East End London teenage twins who

If not for her friend Nichole

The Players have been summoned to The Calling

At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve

And to restore our faith in ourselves

"Banana" as his mother endearingly called him

to the devastating losses that ultimately dissolved their romantic relationship for good

your neighbors

not the violins at Florian's

Judd joins his dysfunctional family as they reluctantly sit shiva - and spend seven days and nights under the same roof

But as the warrior princess's star rises

" his boss at Newsweek told him

these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh-Western expat-husbands