The extraordinary story of an unconventional marriage. A mesmerizing meditation on love and loss.
Alison Light is a writer and critic. She is an honorary professor in the Department of English at University College, London, Honorary Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University and a Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. A regular contributor to the London Review of Books, she is the author of the much-acclaimed Mrs Woolf and the Servants and Common People, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She lives in Oxford.
There are of course memoirs that do astonish and exceed our
expectations of mere self-accounting: in recent years, Helen
Macdonald's H Is for Hawk; Patti Smith's various autobiographical
writings; Lorna Sage's Bad Blood; and Gillian Rose's Love's Work.
Alison Light's A Radical Romance now joins this select bunch of
books about the self that are not simply self-regarding but truly
self-exploratory
*Guardian*
Extremely interesting, moving, brilliantly written, as one would
expect from Alison Light
*Claire Tomalin*
A memoir of cauterising honesty. This is a book that deserves to be
widely read
*Spectator*
An inspiring account of the deep love between Alison Light and her
late husband Raphael Samuel
*TLS*
Beautifully crafted...It casts a light on the lightness of love and
the profound depression of loss. A truly gifted writer
*Hugh MacDonald, The Herald*
She writes with precision and tenderness about loss. A Radical
Romance is an admirable tribute to a man, a period of rapid change
in London, and an unusual marriage
*Guardian*
Compulsively readable. Light is a shrewd narrator . . . she
reflects with careful psychological and philosophical insight on
the reality of loneliness and profound loss following ten years of
marriage. Light is also a poet and it shows in certain suppositions
or propositions, those observations she posits in high-wire mental
leaps.
*RTE*
Part detective story, part Dickensian saga, part labour history. A
thrilling and unnerving read
*Observer, on Common People*
Mesmeric and deeply moving
*Daily Telegraph, on Common People*
Remarkable, haunting, full of wisdom
*The Times, on Common People*
The most powerful family history I have ever read
*Penelope Lively, New York Times, on Common People*
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