The Reading Party

A brilliant coming of age novel set against the backdrop of Oxford University in the mid 1970s

"Gorgeously written, evocative and compelling’. Daily Mail. 'An original and charming novel.’" - Claire Tomalin

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Description

It is the 1970s and Oxford’s male institutions are finally opening their doors to women. Sarah Addleshaw, young, spirited and keen to prove her worth, begins term as the first female academic at her college. She is in fact, her college’s only female ‘Fellow’. Impulsive love affairs – with people, places and the ideas in her head – beset Sarah throughout her first exhilarating year as a don, but it is the Reading Party, that has the most dramatic impact. Asked to accompany the first mixed group of students on the annual college trip to Cornwall, Sarah finds herself illicitly drawn to one of them, the suave American Tyler. Torn between professional integrity and personal feelings she faces her biggest challenge to date.

Fenella Gentleman studied at Wadham College, Oxford, when it went mixed. She participated in two reading parties in Cornwall. After graduating she worked in publishing, marketing and communications. She lives in London and Norfolk.

Additional information

Imprint

Muswell Press

Publication Date

14th June 2018

Height

216

Width

138

Subjects

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Author Name

Pages

280