England's Lane

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Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959.

Three married couples: each living in England's Lane, each with an only child, and each attending to family, and their livelihoods - the ironmonger's, the sweetshop and the butcher's.

Each of them hiding their lies, disguising sin, coping in the only way they know how.

Reviews

'Already a writer to relish for virtuosic farce and razor-edged comedy of manners, Connolly excels with this deftly woven novel of London suburban dreams and dreads in 1959' Independent. * Independent *
'May well be his masterpiece ... Connolly unfolds a rich and compelling drama of life' Daily Mail. * Daily Mail *
'Vibrant tragicomic slices of cosmopolitan Englishness' Independent on Sunday. * Independent on Sunday *
'Connolly pulls the strings artfully in his sardonic portrait of 1950s England ... He knows exactly what he's doing, in an immensely contrived, sophisticated and satisfying game' Adam Mars-Jones, Observer. * Observer *
'Connolly has a keen sense of the hushed emotional tenderness of English life and our silent shattering pain' Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph *

Author Bio

Joseph Connolly is the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling writer of eleven novels, as well as eleven works of non-fiction. He lives in London.