My Revolutions

"My Revolutions [is] a tense thriller in which the revolutionary certainties of the early 1970s collide with the compromises of the late 1990s." -- The Guardian Chris Carver is living a lie. His wife, their teenage daughter, and everyone in their circle know him as Michael Frame, suburban dad. They have no idea that as a radical student in the sixties he briefly became a terrorist -- protesting the Vietnam War by setting bombs around London. And then one day a ghost from his past turns up on his doorstep, forcing Chris on the run. As Chris flees, he remembers his days as an isolated youth, hopelessly in love with Anna Addison. Chris's rival for Anna's affections, the charismatic Sean Ward, was the leader of the radical August 14th Group. Egging one another on, the three inched closer and closer to the edge, until the events of one horrifying night forced them apart, never to see one another again. Gripping, moving, provocative, and passionate, My Revolutions brings to brilliant life both the radical idealism of the sixties and the darker currents that ran beneath it, the eddies of which still shape our history today. Hari Kunzru is the author of The Impressionist, Transmission, and the short story collection Noise. He was named one of Granta's "Twenty Best Fiction Writers Under Forty." The Impressionist was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and a British Book Award. Reader Simon Prebble has played in everything from soaps to Shakespeare on stage and television, is an AudioFile Magazine "Golden Voice" and was named Publishers Weekly "Narrator of the Year."