We Had It So Good: A Novel by Linda Grant | THE GREENFIELDER

This is a book about middle-class existence but it is also more than thatâ€"it shows how life, for most of us, just unfolds, inexorably, forming its own arc.” â€"The Sunday Times (London). “My only complaint? I fear I may not read a better book all year. ... She's British, the smart, sensitive daughter of small-time hotel owners in Cornwall. When Stephen meets her at Oxford, she's “a pre-Raphaelite painting: a tangle of tawny hair and ankle-length green velvet robe. ...