Kathy Page: Dear Evelyn: Winner of the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize [2018] paperback ZIRIS he sets forth to petition

he sets forth to petition the one man who can restore them

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I do not know any other writer who can portray life in this way' Rachel Joyce

emotionally precise page-turner

Kathy Page: Dear Evelyn: Winner of the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize [2018] paperback ZIRIS he sets forth to petitionBorn between the wars in a working class South London street, Harry Miles is a sensitive and capable boy who attends school on a scholarship and grows into a thoughtful young man. Full of energy and literary ambition, he visits Battersea Library in search of New Writing: instead, however, he discovers Evelyn, a magnetic and independent minded woman from a narrow, terraced street not far from his own. This is a love story, albeit an unconventional one,