Dear Evelyn

Born between the wars in working-class South London, Harry is a scholarship boy. Full of literary dreams, he visits Battersea Library and discovers Evelyn, a magnetic girl from a narrow street not far from his own. Dear Evelyn is an unconventional love story of two people shaping each other as they, their marriage and their country change.

Winner of the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

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, however, he discovers Evelyn, a magnetic and independent-minded woman from a narrow, terraced street not far from his own.

This is a love story, albeit an unconventional one, 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.

• | Author: Kathy Page
• | Publisher: And Other Stories
• | Publication Date: Sep 06, 2018
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781911508281
• | ISBN-10: 1911508288