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Also by Linda Grant:

The Story of the Forest, November 2025
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The Story of the Forest, May 2024
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We Had It So Good, May 2011
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WE HAD IT SO GOOD
By: Linda Grant

Simon and Schuster
May 2011
On Sale: April 26, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 1451617402
EAN: 9781451617405
Hardcover
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Fiction

A generational novel which opens memorably in a fur storage house in Los Angeles with its American protagonist as a boy trying on Marilyn Monroe’s coat. When he grows up, Stephen goes to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and stays on to avoid the draft and Vietnam. He marries an Englishwoman, and they experience many of the things the baby boomer generation went through. Later the torch is passed to their children. In addition, Stephen’s father Si makes a dramatic reappearance after Stephen’s mother dies. This is a big, capacious novel, bursting with wonderful characters and ideas.

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Diane Rehm Show - NPR - May 4, 2011