Publisher's Synopsis
"Stock writes with cool intelligence." THE TIMES "A major new talent." MAIL ON SUNDAY The irresistible new novel from the acclaimed author of A FOREIGN COUNTRY. Love, marriage and ambition at a pivotal moment when the man-made world of the 1950s is about to change... It's the start of the 1960s in an English suburb. Patsy is the ideal wife - she gives form to her husband's life, and style to their fabulous interior decor. Alan, her husband, is a scientist and his corporation is in the race to find the new wonder fibre that blends convenience with style, and Alan is jetted over to head-office in the US. For Patsy, at home with the children, this wasn't part of the grand plan. The Patsy of those days needs to be defined by a man. MAN-MADE FIBRE evokes with wit and delight the lure of modernism, the shock of the new - and the way two people respond to the way things were, and the way things were going.
