"Outstanding . . . tender, sexy and alarming."--Jim Crace
When Alfred White, patriarch of the White family, collapses at work, his
wife, May, and their three disparate children find themselves
confronting issues they would rather ignore. Maggie Gee skillfully
weaves a narrative that reminds us that racism not only devastates the
lives of its victims, but also those of its perpetrators.
Maggie Gee is the first female chair of the Royal Society of
Literature and lives in London. The White Family was shortlisted for
the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the IMPAC Award. The Flood
was longlisted for the Orange Prize.