MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST TITLE NOW PUBLISHED IN US

A Group Portrait With an Unflinching Focus

By JANET MASLIN writing in the New York Times

“The Northern Clemency” is a haunting, loving, trenchantly grotesque novel about two families in Sheffield, England, over the course of two politically fraught decades. In a story that sounds at least semi-autobiographical in its domestic intimacy, one boy will grow up to be a writer, albeit a very strange one. Francis Sellers, that boy, is arguably the most weirdly repressed figure in a book that treasures both weirdness and repression to the point of fetishism.

For Janet Maslin's full review link here.

THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY
By Philip Hensher
597 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95.

Note - published by Fourth Estate in UK/Aust/NZ - NZRRP $34.95

Both the US (above) & UK (left) cover versions are shown here.