Tom Crewe: The New Life: A daring new novel about desire and the search for freedom in Victorian England [2023] paperback Condition:New and the big clarifying mistakes

and the big clarifying mistakes people can make when they're no longer sure of who they are or where they belong

her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis

For a start she hasn't got a clue whether she wants to be Jewish like her father or Christian like her mother

These creatures have strange features - but they all serve a very useful purpose

including Ponta Delgada

Tom Crewe: The New Life: A daring new novel about desire and the search for freedom in Victorian England [2023] paperback Condition:New and the big clarifying mistakesTwo Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . . 'A very fine new writer' Kate Atkinson 'Electrifying' Anne Enright ______________ After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, a married man, has met Frank, a working class printer. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with a woman who wants Edith all to herself. When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book