Author(s): Cressida Connolly

Contemporary Fiction

A TALE OF A TRAGEDY SEEPING THROUGH GENERATIONS, AND A FAMILY FRACTURED BY HISTORY AND DESIRE - available for pre-order now ‘The characters in Bad Relations are so brilliantly real, so wonderfully compelling at their best, and at their worst, that I can’t get them out of my head. A wonderful novel’ Nina Stibbe ‘A writer who seems able to peer directly into the human heart’ John Preston On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William’s experience of war will bring about a change in him that will reverberate through his family over the next two centuries. In the 1970s, William’s descendants invite Stephen, a distant relation, to stay in their house in the English countryside - but their golden summer entanglements will end in a shocking fall from grace. Half a century later, a confrontation between the surviving members of the family will culminate in a terrible reckoning. Praise for AFTER THE PARTY: ‘Uncanny, evocative, atmospheric’ Sunday Times ‘Connolly is a terrifically subtle writer… [she] slyly sweeps her readers into the period drama as tensions tauten between families and social classes’ Daily Telegraph ‘Profound and moving and completely original, with a storyline that is completely satisfying. It’ll be one of those novels that stays in my mind forever… it’s a work of art’ Craig Brown ‘I finished it in two days flat and I’ve never read anything quite like it’ Hilary Spurling ‘Wonderfully subtle and interesting… with a compelling voice’ Linda Grant