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Born between the wars in a working-class South London street, Harry Miles is a sensitive and capable boy who attends school on a scholarship and grows into a thoughtful young man. Full of energy and literary ambition, he visits Battersea Library in search of New Writing: instead, he discovers Evelyn, a magnetic and independent-minded woman from a street not far from his own. This is an unconventional love story about two people who shape each other as they, their marriage and their country change. From London before the sexual revolution to the lewd frescos of Pompeii, from the acrid devastation of Churchill's North African campaign to the cloying bounty of new-built suburbs, Dear Evelyn is a novel of contrasts, whose portrait of a seventy-year marriage unfolds in tender, spare, and excruciating episodes.
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"A portrait of a turbulent and beautiful seventy-year-long marriage forged during the onset of World War II. “With its emotional depth and flawless grasp of period, this is an outstanding novel: gripping and profound, richly imagined, fiercely intelligent.” RONALD WRIGHT, author of The Gold Eaters"
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