The Northern Clemency
Synopsis
Set in Sheffield, The Northern Clemency charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours the Sellers family, newly arrived from London.
Philip Hensher has created a deeply moving portrait of Britain’s social landscape through the Thatcher era and The Northern Clemency shows him to be one of the greatest chroniclers of English life.
Author Biography
Philip Hensher is a columnist for The Independent, Chief Book Reviewer for The Spectator and a Granta Best of Young British novelist. He has written five novels, Other Lulus, Kitchen Venom (Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Pleasured, the Booker-longlisted The Mulberry Empire and The Fit, as well as a collection of short stories, The Bedroom of the Mister’s House.
