Unexploded

Alison MacLeod was raised in Canada and has lived in England since 1987. She is the author of three novels, The Changeling, The Wave Theory of Angels and Unexploded, and of a collection of stories, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction. Unexploded was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013. Alison MacLeod is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Chichester University and lives in Brighton.

About the author

Alison MacLeod was raised in Canada and has lived in England since 1987. She is the author of three novels, The Changeling, The Wave Theory of Angels and Unexploded, and of a collection of stories, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction. Unexploded was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013. Alison MacLeod is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Chichester University and lives in Brighton.

Summary

On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches. It is a year of change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, and Evelyn, desperate to feel useful, begins reading to some of the prisoners.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Macleod
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9780141016078
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101607-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sussex, FICTION / Jewish, Brighton and Hove, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)