false 2927460 10 From the author of The Mulberry Empire: a new novel of great dramatic and emotional depth—a sweeping, powerfully engaging story of ordinary lives that are profoundly shaped by the larger forces of history. In 1974, the Sellers are transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the street is in upheaval: convinced that his wife is having an affair, Malcolm Glover has suddenly disappeared. The reverberations of this rupture will be felt for years as the connection between the families deepens. But it will be the particular crises of ten-year-old Tim Glover—set off by two seemingly inconsequential but ultimately indelible acts of cruelty—that will erupt, full-blown, decades later. These lives unfold against a brilliantly rendered backdrop of twentieth-century English history at the dawn of the Thatcher era: prosperity for some and disenfranchisement for others, which will have a drastic impact on both families. Expansive and deeply felt, The Northern Clemency shows Philip Hensher to be one of our most masterly chroniclers of English life, and a storyteller of virtuosic gifts. 2954855 book 1 4 2008 The Northern Clemency total:372|5:36|4:129|3:118|2:57|1:32| 372 1196 1117 145 3 4 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 01 03:02:08 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 25 02:23:18 -0800 2008 1
This is a most interesting book. A truly epic tale (around 300,000 words) of the everyday that follows the lives of two Sheffield families from the seventies to the mid nineties – and it really is a story of the everyday. Nothing truly momentous h...more...]]> 4 4 false false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 02:24:01 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 14:58:29 -0800 2009
OK. Let's get the whole rating thing out of the way right now. Objectively speaking, this is a three-star book. But I enjoyed it very much - and read all 600 pages in about a day and a half. Whic...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 16 07:24:30 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 07:26:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 11 10:40:18 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 11:00:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jan 06 15:51:29 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 15:54:21 -0800 2009 Starred Review. A finalist for the Man Booker Prize, Hensher's Sheffield-set suburban drama spans 20 years in the lives of two neighboring families: the Sellers and the Glovers. Katherine Glover's husband, Malcolm, assuming Katherine has been cheating on him, disappears t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 05:41:22 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 05:42:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 20:27:03 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 20:45:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false true Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 03:48:32 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 03:48:53 -0700 2009
It plots the lives from 1970-2000 of two families in sheffield - The glovers and the sellers. They live in the same street, with a house party happening at the time when the sellers move up from London.

It uses the standar...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 05 10:02:10 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:02:10 -0800 2009 Philip Hensher has been compared to Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Ian McEwan, and Virginia Woolf, among other respected literary writers, living and dead. No pressure there. For all its grounding in the classics—past and present—Hensher's latest novel elici...

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Book One
Mardy

Book Two
Nesh

Book Two-and-a-half
In London

Book Three
Gi'O'Er

Book Four
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A family move from down south to South Yorkshire in the seventies. Oooh, spook...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 25 06:24:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 07:05:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 15:50:12 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 15:54:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 27 19:05:25 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 15:49:49 -0800 2009
It is about two middle class families in the 1970s through the 1980s Northern England. Many of the...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 14:16:58 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 14:42:44 -0700 2009
It's really dense reading which makes the occasional time leaps kinda strange, but then I do like the way so much of it shifts into coherent narrative. It's really like a slice o'lives in some ways.

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