Alex Hyde

Amid the heady rebellion of London's Young British Artists, Rabble Stone, a photographer, meets the artist, a painter, after renting a room in her Brixton home. Soon Rabble is in thrall to this new world: to the run-down glamour of the Victorian house; to the exhilarating and debauched gallery openings, and to those in the artist's orbit, beautiful and lost....

An astonishing debut novel of motherhood and loss in the dying days of the Second World War. Violets captures a compelling, quiet power all the way to its exquisitely affecting end. As Megan Hunter, author of The Harpy and The End We Start From, describes it: "Moving, graceful..." Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory, praises it as "Stunning and...