A Radical Romance

A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation

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Pub Date 6 Aug 2020 | Archive Date 8 Sep 2020

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An extraordinary portrait of a marriage from the prize-winning author of Common People

'The greatest memoirs offer all the complex shades and colours that we expect in fiction. A Radical Romance is more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art' Guardian

Alison Light met the charismatic social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Within a year they were married. Within ten, Raphael would be dead.

Theirs was an attraction of opposites - he, twenty years her senior, from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Eastern Europe, she from the English working class. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage, Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together, its intimacies and its estrangements. A Radical Romance is a luminous account of love and loss, and a celebration of our transformative capacity to share our lives and change our selves.

'Displays her usual sharp but sympathetic appreciation of the finest gradations of culture and class' Margaret Drabble, TLS, Books of the Year

'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' Stephanie Merritt, Observer

'Extremely interesting, moving, brilliantly written, as one would expect from Alison Light' Claire Tomalin

An extraordinary portrait of a marriage from the prize-winning author of Common People

'The greatest memoirs offer all the complex shades and colours that we expect in fiction. A Radical Romance is...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9780241975350
PRICE £9.99 (GBP)
PAGES 256

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