Rowena Macdonald

A choice of first novels | 27 March 2010

Catharine is a middle-class, married woman in her late thirties living in a genteel village an hour from London with her husband, a successful lawyer, who nicknames her ‘Catch’.

  • Catch

    Simon Robson

    Jonathan Cape, pp. 262

  • La Rochelle

    Michael Nath

    Route, pp. 285

  • Rupture

    Alex Preston

    Faber, pp. 335

  • This Bleeding City

    Simon Lelic

    Picador, pp. 294

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