A Perfect Explanation
  • Published:
    Feb-2020 (Hardcover)
    Mar-2019 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    320
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Finalist for the Desmond Elliott Prize

A "superb debut"* novel -- based on the story of the author's grandmother -- following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian)

Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love. But when her brother died in the First World War, a new heir was needed, and it was up to Enid to provide it.

A troubled marriage and three children soon followed. Broken by postpartum depression, overwhelmed by motherhood and a loveless marriage, Enid made the shocking decision to abandon her family, thereby starting a chain of events -- a kidnap, a court case, and selling her son to her sister for £500 -- that reverberated through the generations.

Interweaving one significant day in 1964, when it seems the family will reunite for one last time, with a decade during the interwar period, A Perfect Explanation explores the perils of aristocratic privilege, where inheritance is everything and happiness is hard won.
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    •  
    • Mar-2019
    • Salt Publishing
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1784631647
    • ISBN13: 9781784631642
    •  
    • Feb-2021
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0358415160
    • ISBN13: 9780358415169
    • First Edition
    • Feb-2020
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0358120853
    • ISBN13: 9780358120858
    •  
    • Mar-2019
    • Salt
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1784631655
    • ISBN13: 9781784631659
    •  
    • Feb-2020
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0358123046
    • ISBN13: 9780358123040
    •  
    • Feb-2020
    • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Mar-2019
    • Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
    • Audible
    •  
    • Feb-2020
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1094064254
    • ISBN13: 9781094064253
    •  
    • Feb-2020
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0358306736
    • ISBN13: 9780358306733
    •  
    • Jan-2022
    • Thorndike Press Large Print
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 143288204X
    • ISBN13: 9781432882044
    • Large Print
    • Library Binding



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