Kathy Page: Dear Evelyn: Winner of the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize [2018] paperback ZIRIS how the architectural avant-garde was

how the architectural avant-garde was able to persist at a time when it was widely considered to have been driven underground

I do not know any other writer who can portray life in this way' Rachel Joyce

On December 7th 1941

the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned

to the cars whizzing by on the Straight Road

Kathy Page: Dear Evelyn: Winner of the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize [2018] paperback ZIRIS how the architectural avant-garde wasBorn between the wars in a working class South London street, Harry Miles is a sensitive and capable boy who attends school on a scholarship and grows into a thoughtful young man. Full of energy and literary ambition, he visits Battersea Library in search of New Writing: instead, however, he discovers Evelyn, a magnetic and independent minded woman from a narrow, terraced street not far from his own. This is a love story, albeit an unconventional one,