- Published: 7 September 2018
- ISBN: 9780241327739
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $19.99
After The Party
- Published: 7 September 2018
- ISBN: 9780241327739
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $19.99
[A] virtuoso novel
Telegraph Magazine
A wonderfully acute writer
Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph Summer Reads
A wonderfully subtle and interesting account of the Mosley women, with a compelling voice
Linda Grant
Chilling
Spectator
Connolly [is] an unerring storyteller who excels at both period and place
Daily Mail
Connolly gives an object lesson in how to tell a story in a non-judgmental way. The result is a brave, engrossing and unexpectedly moving novel
Mail on Sunday
Connolly has tremendous fun with her posh characters' class-obsessed milieu, but the privations of Holloway Prison, with its rope-thick dust, bone-chilling cold and maggoty food, are equally sharply drawn
Daily Mail Summer Reads
Connolly is a terrifically subtle writer... [she] slyly sweeps her readers into the period drama as tensions tauten between families and social classes
Daily Telegraph, Five Stars
Deeply impressive.... quietly devastating tale of world affairs played out on an intimate scale
Metro
I finished it in two days flat and I've never read anything quite like it. Everything about the book rings true, politically, psychologically, and in period detail, from the sunny beginnings to the grim end
Hilary Spurling
In her latest novel, Cressida Connolly expertly evokes a changing nation, and a woman whose life is altered forever
Vogue
One of the best books published this year
The Lady
Polished and reflective... a salutary masterclass on the values that really matter
Country Life
Profound and moving and completely original, with a storyline that is completely satisfying. It'll be one of those novels that stays in my mind forever... it's a work of art
Craig Brown
This historical novel is an absorbing, nuanced look at extremism dressed up with social niceties and class privilege, and is sure to resonate today
Stylist
Uncanny, evocative.... Connolly skilfully sets scenes in pared yet atmospheric prose
Sunday Times
Wonderful, tragicomic... beautifully researched
Kate Saunders, The Times
Extraordinary, gripping... Exquisitely written with lyricism and a stiletto-sharp and humorous pen, Connolly takes on a subject which resonates powerfully with current politics
Sofka Zinovieff, The Lady
Beautifully written... Connolly's perfect control of tone and detail makes this very compelling. Excellent
Evening Standard
Connolly's research is immaculate... well-imagined
The Times Saturday Review
In pared yet atmospheric prose, Connolly skilfully evokes the scents of an English summer and hedonistic parties
Sunday Times Culture
Connolly has an ear for how people really speak. It's the gift of a proper writer
Daily Telegraph
Cressida Connolly's flawless new novel After the Party, for all its darkness, seems suffused with the "soft, buttery" light of an English summer afternoon. But in June of 1938, infernal shadows lengthen. Ms. Connolly is a master, revealing character while sustaining an effect of lightness and ease. We follow Phyllis through an indolent prewar season beautifully conjured, often in heady, sensual detail. Ms. Connolly is too astute and compassionate a novelist to provide neat conclusions. The novel leaves us with the mysterious sense of having inhabited a time and a life whose emotional gravity holds us still.
Wall Street Journal