Sofka Zinovieff: Putney [2019] paperback Condition:Very Good A moving portrait

A moving portrait

including Otis Redding

There are stories about the tension between country and city life

he makes a fantastic plan of his own

of how science and civilisation grew up together

Sofka Zinovieff: Putney [2019] paperback Condition:Very Good A moving portraitA bold, thought provoking novel that will compel and disquiet in equal measure, about the moral lines we tread, the stories we tell ourselves and the secrets we bury; 'the best novel of 2018, by far' (Cressida Connolly, Spectator) A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 CHOSEN BY THE OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR 1970s London. Ralph, an up and coming composer, has gone to visit Edmund Greenslay in his riverside home. At the heart of the house's wild bliss he