{"product_id":"the-hill-by-harriet-clark-in-conversation-with-adam-phillips","title":"The Hill by Harriet Clark in conversation with Adam Phillips","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThursday 5 Nov\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e7-9pm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin us for the UK launch of \u003cem\u003eThe Hill\u003c\/em\u003e by Harriet Clark. The author will be in conversation with Adam Phillips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eThe Hill\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up at the prison gates among the other children, each dressed as if for celebration. Inside there is a nursery and a cemetery; there are watchful guards and distractable nuns; there are women counting down to release and women like Suzanna's mother, who will never be released.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt home, Suzanna is raised by her grandmother, who is entirely unforgiving of her daughter's crime and refuses to visit the prison. Surrounding Suzanna are her grandmother's friends, who know one another from their years in the Communist Party and still spend extended cocktail hours debating the Hitler-Stalin pact. Though these women once insisted on changing the world, they are torn between teaching Suzanna how the world works and shielding her from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuzanna vows to return to the prison forever but her mother wants her to be free. Harriet Clark's \u003cem\u003eThe Hill \u003c\/em\u003eis an incandescent novel of a child growing up between worlds, the last of three generations whose fates have been tied to punishment. It is the tale of a family broken apart by the desire for change, told with irreverent wisdom and visionary force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarriet Clark\u003c\/strong\u003e is the winner of the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for her short story 'Descent', and has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Wallace Stegner Program. \u003cem\u003eThe Hill\u003c\/em\u003e is her debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/strong\u003e, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently \u003cem\u003eThe Life You Want\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn Giving Up\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOn Getting Better\u003c\/em\u003e. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burley Fisher Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64811571052921,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0405\/3385\/2310\/files\/THEHILLhbkjkt.jpg?v=1791368126","url":"https:\/\/burleyfisherbooks.com\/products\/the-hill-by-harriet-clark-in-conversation-with-adam-phillips","provider":"Burley Fisher Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}