Product Description
Bad Relations
Author: Cressida Connolly
Format: Paperback
A Tale of a Tragedy Seeping Through Generations, and a Family Fractured by History and Desire
'Bad Relations is an amazing achievement and one of the most satisfying books you're likely to read this year' — The Times
'Haunting and beautiful... In recent British fiction I can think only of Tessa Hadley who rivals Connolly in exacting such intricate, compelling drama from close-knit families... I don't often wish a book were longer, but this one I did' — Observer
On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William's experience of war will bring about a change in him that will reverberate through his family over the next two centuries.
In the 1970s, William's descendants invite Stephen, a distant relation, to stay in their house in the English countryside - but their golden summer entanglements will end in a shocking fall from grace.
Half a century later, a confrontation between the surviving members of the family will culminate in a terrible reckoning.
'The characters in Bad Relations are so brilliantly real, so wonderfully compelling at their best, and at their worst, that I can't get them out of my head. A wonderful novel' — Nina Stibbe
'This is an Atonement-like novel about the messy stuff that is family life' — Spectator
'A compelling family saga' — Sunday Times
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