The White Family

Paperback original. 8vo. 416 pp. Photographic wraps.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Her seventh novel. Shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize and the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Alfred White, a London park keeper tries to hold his family together while entertaining a misty-eyed view of the good old days. A stark take on racist impulses lurking in a "normal" British family.

One of six women among the 20 writers on the 1983 Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. Elected the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, 2004 – 08, and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature in 2012. "In her outstanding new novel, Maggie Gee has audited the multi-ethnic, murderous matter of everyday suburban life and rendered it tender, sexy and alarming." –Jim Crace