

On Green Dolphin Street
Sebastian Faulks
A vividly evocative novel set in Cold War and New Frontier era America, from the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray
America, 1959. With two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired husband, Charlie, working at the British embassy in Washington, the world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz and family happiness to Mary van der Linden. But the Eisenhower years are ending, and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. But when Frank, an American newspaper reporter, enters their lives Mary embarks on a passionate affair, all the while knowing that in the end she must confront an impossible decision.
‘A novel about adultery, jazz and alcohol-full of good things, of the intensity of initially thwarted desire, of the atmosphere of a new era coming alive, of the poignancy of things past rings precisely true…suave and fluent’ Sunday Times
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Mail on Sunday
A novel about adultery, jazz and alcohol-full of good things, of the intensity of initially thwarted desire, of the atmosphere of a new era coming alive, of the poignancy of things past rings precisely true - suave and fluent
Sunday Times
Both tense and affection... At the end one releases the breath one has been unconsciously holding, tribe to a writer of considerable skill and ambition. A modern epic
Anita Brookner
Spectator
On Green Dolphin Street is one of the most heart-shakingly accurate depictions of how it feels to be female and in love that I have ever read
Julie Myerson
Observer
A real page turner...superbly done...another winner
Sunday Telegraph