• We Had It So Good by Linda Grant
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We Had It So Good

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    • Linda Grant
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Born to hardworking immigrant parents in sunny suburban Los Angeles, Stephen Newman never imagined that he would spend his adult life under the grey skies of north London, would marry Andrea for convenience and stay married, and would watch his children grow into people he cannot fathom. Over forty years he and his friends have built lives of comfort and success, until the events of late middle age and the new century force them to realise that they have always existed in a fool's paradise.

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  • Published: Jan 12 2012
  • Pages: 352
  • 196 x 124mm
  • ISBN: 9781844086399
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Press Reviews

  • Michael Arditti

    Daily Mail
    Compelling, perceptive and deeply humane

  • Melissa Katsoulis

    The Times
    Gripping and stylishly told. Post-war California, Oxford and London are recreated superbly and brightly . . . Grant comes close to creating the perfect novel

  • Rosamund Urwin

    Evening Standard
    My only complaint? I fear I may not read a better book all year

  • Viv Groskop

    Observer
    Ambitious . . . Like the best novels, it makes you examine your own moral compass alongside that of its characters

  • Michael Arditti

    Daily Mail
    'Compelling, perceptive and deeply humane'

  • Melissa Katsoulis

    The Times
    'Gripping and stylishly told. Post-war California, Oxford and London are recreated superbly and brightly . . . Grant comes close to creating the perfect novel'

  • Rosamund Urwin

    Evening Standard
    'My only complaint? I fear I may not read a better book all year'

  • Viv Groskop

    Observer
    'Ambitious . . . Like the best novels, it makes you examine your own moral compass alongside that of its characters'