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The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency
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The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency
When a pandemic strikes, and a country’s whole population is told to close the doors and stay inside, the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of trees emerges. There is time now to see the human dramas within a hundred yards (an abduction, a quiet breakdown, an outbreak of violence); to wait for the weather to change; to understand that what lies underneath this part of the city are seasonally wet pastures and woodlands.
Written in four parts, To Battersea Park explores the strata and sediment of a single place and time. It shows what brings us together, through love, through the clashes of what we want to do and what the world wants to do with us. Set in a large crowded city where we are forbidden to approach strangers, this is about our shared humanity, and the understanding offered by many acts of telling.
Praise for Philip Hensher:
‘Hensher is fascinatingly good on how social transformation manifests itself in the textures, colours and manners of a culture… extremely funny, but also deeply humane‘ Sunday Times
‘Hensher is an anatomist of familial tensions … He has an impeccable eye for nuances of character and setting’ The Times
‘Hensher has a forensic eye for detail, providing nightmarish glimpses of the everyday…engrossing, amusing and moving‘ Independent
‘[Hensher] brilliantly animates the lives of neglected people during big historical events’ The Times
‘[Hensher] illuminates an entire social world with skill, humour and tenderness‘ Daily Mail
‘Rather like Mary Gaitskill, [Hensher] specializes in extending sympathy to his creations and then suddenly withdrawing it, giving them enough rope to hang themselves with’ TLS
