On Beauty

Contemporary Literature & Fiction

Author: Zadie Smith

On Beauty by Zadie Smith, author of the prize-winning White Teeth, is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family. Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families – the Belseys and the Kipps – a….Read More

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