Free Love - Tessa Hadley

1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the Fischer suburban family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: the pretty Women At the Dedicated Home Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father who had a career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Their children are Colette, a bookstore, and Hugh, the gold boy. But when the son of an old friend, in his twenties, visits the Fischer by a hot summer evening and embraces Phyllis in the Garden Dark after dinner, something takes fire. Newly awake in the world, Phyllis makes a choice that challenges all the expectations of her as a wife and mother. It turns out that nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, because the upheaval of the family reflects the dramatic transformation of the society which surrounds them. With a poignant insight, Tessa Hadley explores the interior worlds of his characters, exposing their fears and their desires. Bold and sensual, Free Love is an exciting and irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and the most true and significant version of our lives.

• English version only
• Love novel/drama
• 328 pages
• supple cover
• Written by Tessa Hadley