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On Beauty won the Women's Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.

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Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
ISBN-13
9780141920160
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Topics
Family conflictLove and marriageAcademia and intellectual lifeCultural identityInfidelity

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