Description
In the early 1970s, a glamorous, androgynous couple—known as Evie/Stevie—arrives on the isolated campus of a new university, igniting a group of teenagers who are eager to test radical ideas about love, identity, and freedom. What begins as intoxicating self-invention quickly reveals a darker undertow: anxieties, secrets, and the unsettling sense that certain choices can echo for decades. For Adele, whose past is hardest to name, Evie/Stevie become a lifelong obsession as she tries to reconstruct the night of her twentieth birthday—only to find the evidence missing and the truth harder to hold. Spanning from Cornwall summers to London in the twenty-first century, the novel explores memory, complicity, and the stories we tell ourselves, written in Linda Grant’s sharp, psychologically attuned style that blends intimacy with cultural critique.
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paperback
Virago
Published Jan 1, 2014
306 pages
ISBN: 9781844087495
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First Published
2014
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant.