The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher

The Northern Clemency

Philip Hensher

597 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced
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Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, 'The Northern Clemency' is Philip Hensher's epic portrait of an entire era, a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people and history on the move.

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