Review
"As it gathered pace . . . I found my heart beating faster. I cannot remember a more compulsive book."
-"Daily Telegraph"
"Kennedy knows how to keep the pages turning."
-"The Times"
Review
"As it gathered pace . . . I found my heart beating faster. I cannot remember a more compulsive book."
-"Daily Telegraph"
"Kennedy knows how to keep the pages turning."
-"The Times" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Product Description
Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript corner of Maine.
But normality isn't quite what Hannah imagined it would to be, and try as she might to fight it, the urge to rebel against the things that hem her in grows ever stronger. Eventually, a series of encounters puts Hannah in an exhilarating but dangerous position - one in which she never thought she would find herself.
For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life lies buried deep in the past, all but forgotten - until a turn of fate brings it crashing back into the limelight. As her secret emerges, Hannah's life goes into freefall and she is left struggling against the force of the past.
State of the Union is a stunning and grippingly honest story about life, love and family, set against the backdrop of two different but strikingly similar eras.
(20040315)From the Publisher
From the Back Cover
But not Hannah Buchan.
Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend and raise a family in a small town.
Hannah gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor’s wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in... until an unforeseen moment of personal rebellion changes everything. Especially as Hannah is forced into breaking the law.
For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after 9/11, her secret comes out and her life goes into freefall.
‘The story is sit-up-until-3am readable, the wide-ranging cast of highly individual characters is beautifully handled.’ Hugo Barnacle, Sunday Times
‘Kennedy is a complete genius when it comes to understanding the minds of stylish but troubled women. What’s more, he does so enthrallingly and movingly.’ Daily Mirror
