One of Amazon's Top Twenty Books of 2015 • Selected as both a Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2015 • Longlisted for The Guardian 2015 First Novel Award"The illiterate lover and eventual wife of a coauthor of The Communist Ma...
Very little is known about Lizzie Burns, the illiterate Irishwoman who was the longtime lover of Frederick Engels, co-author of THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. In Gavin McCrea's first novel, she is finally given a voice - one that won't easily be forgotten....
Against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution and Europe’s sexual revolution, the fates of two families in London and Beijing become unexpectedly intertwined, in this dazzling new novel from the author of Mrs Engels.Revolution is a Family A...