Books by Tom Lappin
Parties
A novel that straddles the decades like ‘Our Friends in the North’ and introduces a group of friends as well drawn as those in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.
Beatrice, Gordon, Grainne and Richard come together at Edinburgh University in the mid-Eighties, and wind their ways in and out of each other’s lives in the years that follow.
Gordon becomes a New Labour MP, Grainne his long-suffering wife. Beatrice (the ice queen) becomes – almost by accident - a best-selling romantic novelist - with little romance of her own. And Richard, always dithering, child-like, makes a very small splash in music journalism.
Through their lives we see the recent political and cultural landscape - as well drawn as Tim Lott’s Rumours of a Hurricane.
Parties is a stunning debut.
UK Rights: Two Ravens Press
Other territories: Jenny Brown Associates
125,000 words