Winner of the 2018 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Born between the wars in a working-class South London street, Harry
Miles is a sensitive and capable boy who attends school on a scholarship
and grows into a thoughtful young man. Full of energy and literary
ambition, he visits Battersea Library in search of New Writing:
instead, however, he discovers Evelyn, a magnetic and independent-minded
woman from a narrow, terraced street not far from his own.
This is a love story, albeit an unconventional one, about two people who
shape each other as they, their marriage and their country change. From
London before the sexual revolution to the lewd frescos of Pompeii, from
the acrid devastation of Churchill's North African campaign to the
cloying bounty of new-built suburbs, Dear Evelyn is a novel of
contrasts, whose portrait of a seventy-year marriage unfolds in tender,
spare, and excruciating episodes.
