Book description
In Fall we see the tentative beginnings of an unlikely romance -
between schoolteacher Amy and drifting former graduate, Charles. In
Winter we hear how her colleague Howard learns, seventeen years too
late, that he has a daughter following a brief fling with collegemate
Annie. Spring and Summer tell the story of his daughter's friend
Rachel's relationships with her literature teacher, Stuart, and her
dying father Reuben. Executed with exquisite sympathy, tenderness and
emotional nuance, Either Side of Winter is a moving and elegiac
picture of people whose lives are inextricably linked by circumstance,
community - and a need to be loved.
Benjamin Markovits is twenty-nine, and The Syme Papers is his
first novel. Originally from Texas, he now lives in London and writes
for the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.
