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The Northern Clemency

Philip Hensher

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The Northern Clemency was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life, beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996. Set in Sheffield, it charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours, the Sellers family, newly arrived from London so that Bernie can pursue his job with the Electricity Board. The day the Sellers move in there is a crisis across the road: Malcolm Glover has left home, convinced his wife is having an affair. The consequences of this rupture will spread throughout the lives of both couples and their children, in particular ten-year-old Tim Glover, who never quite recovers from a moment of his mother's public cruelty and the amused taunting of fifteen-year-old Sandra Sellers, childhood crises that will come to a head twenty years later. In the background, England is changing: from a manufacturing- and industrial-based economy into a new world of shops, restaurants and service industries, a shift particularly marked in the North with the miners' strike of 1984, which has a dramatic impact on both families.

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Publisher
4th Estate
ISBN-13
9780007307128
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family relationshipsSocial and economic change in BritainComing of age

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