Beyond the Valley of Sex and Shopping

When Susan Perry, aged four, launches herself from the swing in her family’s garden, she finds herself hurtled into a world full of frustration, desire, delight, despair, disaster and joy – the world of being human.

E.P. Rose’s wry, allusive exploration of the relationship between Suzie and her brother, her lovers and her family and friends in the decades following the end of World War II brings to life an extraordinary, charming, occasionally hilarious and sometimes heart-breaking catalogue of events, drawing the reader through to an unexpected and utterly fitting conclusion.