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Upstairs at the Party

By: Linda Grant
Narrated by: Tricia Kelly
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In the early '70s a glamorous couple known as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas they seem blown back from the future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires. But the flamboyant self-expression hides deep anxieties. For Adele, with the most to conceal, Evie/Stevie become a lifelong obsession.

©2014 Linda Grant (P)2014 W F Howes Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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"'My only complaint? I fear I may not read a better book all year" ( Evening Standard )
"Ambitious . . . Like the best novels, it makes you examine your own moral compass alongside that of its characters" ( Observer)
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I couldn't stop listening. It was tremendously good. At one point a book is described as something you must inhabit and that is true for this one. You sunk right into it and now it feels like my own memories.

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