Publisher's Synopsis
'Grand Days is an astonishing novel about the League of Nations, the UN's idealistic and equally toothless forerunner: [its] heroine, Edith Campbell Berry, is a young officer in the League Secretariat . . . Her sexual and moral awakening are every bit as experimental as the League's own progress, and the power lessons no less ironic . . . There are touches of Hemingway in the prose, Nathanael West in the theatrical set-pieces and even of Milan Kundera in the weird, floating effect that Moorhouse achieves' Times Educational Supplement
'Edith Campbell Berry is one of the most winning women in contemporary fiction . . . There is colour galore - a risqué interlude in Paris, a Geneva riot, friendships made and broken, moments of real pathos and terror. The book would make an extraordinarily glamorous movie, and most actresses would brawl to play sexy, smart, plucky Edith' Publishers Weekly
'A wonderful novel . . . Good writing, we may say, is the skill of making others perform well as readers. Read Grand Days then - you won't have performed better as a reader since you read Middlemarch' Howard Jacobson, Sunday Times
'A rich and enriching novel, out of its time but vital to it, whose writing is an inspiration' Guardian
'This is a big, luminous, affectionate and beautifully managed novel. It shows Frank Moorhouse passing from days of wine and rage to his own grand days' Independent on Sunday
