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The Northern Clemency (Hardcover)

By: Philip Hensher (Author)

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"Reading it is a bit like wandering through your old neighborhood, listening in on the thoughts of the residents in each house, finally able to apprehend the hilarious, pitiful and miraculous expanse of it all."

"Hensher is a brilliant anatomist of familial tension and marshals his large cast of characters deftly....[A]n engrossing and hugely impressive novel."

First line

" 'So the garden of number eighty-four is nothing more than a sort of playground for all the kids of the neighbourhood?'
'I wouldn't say all,' Mrs. Arbuthnot said. 'I would have said it was only the Glovers' children.' "

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Set in the English coal-mining town of Sheffield during the Thatcher era, THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY tracks two decades of life in the dysfunctional Glover family. The troubles begins as Katherine Glover decides to get out of the house and get a job at the local florists, immediately arousing neighborhood suspicions of an affair. Her husband, in an attempt to escape the problems at home, becomes increasingly involved in English Civil War re-enactments. And their son Tim begins to develop sinister sexual obsessions. Blending social realism, satire, and touches of postmodernism, THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY is a vividly observed social drama that captures perfectly the atmosphere and culture of life in a blighted town. The novel was short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

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