On Beauty

Penguin Books Ltd

On BeautyAuthor(s): Zadie Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Penguin Books Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780141019451, 978-0141019451\nSynopsis\nWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION\n\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE\n\nSUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER\n\nFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and family\n\nWhy do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?\n\nSet between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.\n\n'I didn't wat