In the Falling Snow
  • Published: 2 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099539742
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

In the Falling Snow

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A major novel about the multicultural Britain of today, by 'One of the literary giants of our time' - New York Times

Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. He takes refuge from his domestic problems in a long-cherished writing project and a renewed relationship with his aging father, who came to Britain as part of the windrush generation, but for the first time in his life he begins to feel extremely vulnerable as a black man in English society.

Meanwhile Annabelle watches the man she married against the wishes of her parents struggle with his grip on reality. Despite their three year estrangement, she realises that they have no choice but to close ranks if they are to protect their son from a world of street gangs and violence.
  • Published: 2 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099539742
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993) and A Distant Shore (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2004). Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993. He has also written for television, radio, theatre and film.

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Praise for In the Falling Snow

Impressive... The extended conclusion is expertly done; the sense of loss it conjures, lasting

Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

Caryl Phillips is an alpha-class writer, both as a phrase-maker and an observer of human nature

Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday

There is rich material here

Jane Shilling, Evening Standard

A good book... extremely well done

Guardian

Urgent and enquiring

Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday

There are some moving passages, notably his father's arresting deathbed monologue about the racism and brutality he endured in an unfairly hard life

Daniel Bolger, The Irish Times

Phillips subtly conveys a changing sense of attitude and perspective... It is a bleak message, brilliantly delivered

Herald

A sharply observed slice of modern British life, cutting across race, class and generational divides to reveal the complexities we're constantly negotiating

Metro