Book Review - We had it so Good by Linda Grant - Reviewed by Doris Mousdale
A generational novel which opens memorably in a fur storage house in Los Angeles with its American protagonist as a boy trying on Marilyn Monroe's coat. When he grows up, Stephen goes to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and stays on to avoid the draft and Vietnam. He marries an Englishwoman, and they experience many of the things the baby boomer generation went through. Later the torch is passed to their children. In addition, Stephen's father Si makes a dramatic reappearance after Stephen's mother dies. This is a big, capacious novel, bursting with wonderful characters and ideas.
Book review by Doris Mousdale, Arcadia Bookshop, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand
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Published by Virago (UK) ISBN 9781844086375, Simon and Schuster (US) 9781451617405
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