Ordinary People Paperback by Diana Evans

Product Details

• Publisher: Bond Street Books (2018-06-19)
• Language: English
• Pages: 336
• ISBN-13: 9780385692120
• Weight: 408.24 grams
• Dimensions: 22.83 x 15.95 x 2.29 cm

"You can take a leap, do something off the wall, something reckless. It's your last chance, and most people miss it."
 
South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn't want to let it change her but, in the crooked walls of a narrow Victorian terrace, she begins to disappear. Michael, growing daily more accustomed to his commute, still loves Melissa but can't quite get close enough to her to stay faithful. Meanwhile out in the suburbs, Stephanie is happy with Damian and their three children, but the death of Damian's father has thrown him into crisis—or is it something, or some-one, else? Are they all just in the wrong place? Are any of them prepared to take the leap?
 
Set against the backdrop of Barack Obama's historic election victory, Ordinary People is an intimate, immersive study of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, friendship and ageing, and the fragile architecture of love. With its distinctive prose and irresistible soundtrack, it is the story of our lives, and those moments that threaten to unravel us.

About the Author

DIANA EVANS is the award-winning author of Ordinary People, The Wonder and 26a. Her prize nominations include the Guardian and Commonwealth Best First Book awards, and she was the inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers. Ordinary People was nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, selected in The New Yorker Best Books of 2018, and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.