Ellen Hawley

A Decent World by Ellen Hawley explores the complexities of family, identity, and belief. Summer Dawidowitz has devoted the past year to caring for her grandmother, Josie—a lifelong Communist, a dedicated teacher, and the founder of an organisation supporting schoolchildren with tutoring. When Josie passes away, Summer's life is thrown into disarray. She must re-examine her relationships and her place...

"A quietly devastating novel about our failings and how we cope" - Patrick Gale It's Minneapolis in the 1970s, and two women meet in the Women's Coffeehouse. Marge is a bus driver, and Peg is training to be a psychotherapist. Over the next twenty years, they stay together, through the challenges any couple faces and some that no one expects....