After the Party, Cressida Connolly
After the Party, Cressida Connolly
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After the Party

Author: Cressida Connolly

Narrator: Ana Clements

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Scribd Audio

Published: 12/14/2021


Synopsis

It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister’s grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new world of idealistic beliefs and seemingly innocent friendships. Fevered talk of another war infiltrates their small, privileged circle, giving way to a thrilling solution: the appointment of a great and charismatic new leader who will restore England to its former glory.

At a party hosted by her new friends, Phyllis lets down her guard for a single moment, with devastating consequences. Years later, Phyllis, alone and embittered, recounts the dramatic events which led to her imprisonment and changed the course of her life forever.

Powerful, poignant, and exquisitely observed, After the Party is an illuminating portrait of a dark period of British history which has yet to be fully acknowledged.

Reviews

This novel has left me with a nasty taste in my mouth. It presents Mosley's fascists as well brought up, peace loving people who just had lovely parties and ran camps to keep the kiddies occupied, and get locked up for their efforts. There's never any sense that Phyllis learned to question the ideol......more

Goodreads review by Liz

After the Party was an interesting and absorbing read, looking back on a time in history that is rarely dealt with – in fiction the anti-nazi war sentiment is to the fore, of course though there are always shades of grey in any human reaction and this is the subject that Cressida Connolly deals with......more