TOM CREWE was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in
nineteenth century British history from the University of
Cambridge. Since 2015, he has been an editor at the London Review
of Books, to which he contributes essays on politics, art, history
and fiction.
The New Life is his first novel. Crewe says-
'This is the book I knew I wanted to write long before I actually
wrote it. I hope it reveals to readers an unfamiliar Victorian
England that will surprise and provoke, inhabited by a generation
in the process of discovering the nature and limits of personal
freedom, struggling to create a better world as the twentieth
century comes into view.'
I loved this book
*Zadie Smith*
'Tom Crewe inhabits the minds, lives and bodies of his visionary
late-nineteenth century characters with almost eerie precision and
intensity. The result is subtle, sexy and beautifully crafted - a
wonderful book'
*Sarah Waters*
'Clever and kind, The New Life is a book of wonderful generosity
and compassion'
*Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam*
It is a pleasure to discover a young novelist with such a wise
sensibility - and also, one who can construct such convincing
characters.
*Sunday Times*
This is a corker... one of the literary debuts of the year
*The Times, *Books to Look Out For 2023**
'Extraordinary in its depiction of reform and liberalism in Britain
in the late-1800s'
*Jonathan Bailey, star of Bridgerton*
The New Life is filled with nuance and tenderness, steeped in the
atmosphere of late nineteenth century London, a world on the brink
of social and sexual change. Tom Crewe's brilliant novel dramatizes
the relationship between the visionary and the brave, charting the
lives of men and women who inspired not only political progress but
an entire new way of living and loving.
*Colm Tóibín*
'A beautifully written debut set in Victorian London... some of the
best writing on desire I've read'
*Douglas Stuart*
[Tom Crewe is] a very fine new writer
*Kate Atkinson*
Electrifying. Tom Crewe's forensic love of the physical puts the
body back into history and makes the past a living, changing
place
*Anne Enright*
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