Tag Archives: Ellen Hawley

Now out in paperback

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Available from Swift Press or The Bad Guys, who do at least make it internationally accessible. (The link is to Amazon US; if you’re elsewhere, Lord Google will be glad to point you in the right direction.) Also available from your local independent bookstore, which needs your support.

Speaking of which, if you can see your way to leaving a review on either Amazon or Goodreads, I’d really appreciate it. They do make a difference.

 

“Quietly magical. A book that draws you in and then refuses to let you go.”

Stephen May, author of Sell Us the Rope

A Decent World

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It’s time to announce a new novel.

(Sorry, did you want a regular post? Come back next week.)

A Decent World is the story of  Summer Dawidowitz, who’s spent the past year caring for her grandmother, Josie — a lifelong Communist, a dedicated teacher, and the founder of an organization that tutors schoolchildren. When Josie dies, everything that seemed solid in Summer’s life comes into question. What sort of relationship will she have with the mother who abandoned her? Will she meet with Josie’s brother, who Josie exiled from the family? Does she really want to go back to the non-monogamous household she was part of before she moved in to take care of Josie? And finally, does she still believe a small, committed group of citizens can change the world, and if so, how?

A Decent World is about grief, family, and love. It asks the broadest of questions about the form of society we live in. It will be in UK bookstores from June 15 or can be ordered now, in the UK or abroad, from Waterstones, Swift Press, or–inevitably–those folks I work hard to avoid, Amazon.