A Radical Romance

<p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A luminous memoir of love and grief from the author of <em>Common People </em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>First U.S. Edition</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alison Light met the radical social historian Raphael Samuel in London in 1986. Twenty years her senior Raphael was a charismatic figure on the British Left utterly driven by his work and by a commitment to collective politics. Within a year they were married. Within ten Raphael would pass away.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Theirs was an attraction of opposites- he from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Eastern Europe she from the English working class. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together its intimacies and its estrangements.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>...more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art. -<em>GUARDIAN</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p>Remarkable moving illuminating. A memoir of cauterizing honesty. This is a book that deserves to be widely read.</p><p>           -MARK BOSTRIDGE <em>SPECTATOR</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>An inspiring account of ... deep love... -<em>TLS</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Beautifully crafted...it casts a light on the lightness of love and the profound depression of loss. A truly gifted writer. -<em>HERALD</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>The portrait of Spitalfields is superb and so is the account of Raphael's astonishing mother Minna.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>           -MARGARET DRABBLE <em>TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p>Compulsively readable. Light is a shrewd narrator...She reflects with careful psychological and philosophical insight on the reality of loneliness and profound loss following ten years of marriage...Light is also a poet and it shows in certain suppositions and propositions... -<em>RTE</em></p><p><strong> </strong></p>