Holiday: Stanley Middleton

2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton`s birth. Holiday, winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, remains the most celebrated and popular novel from `the Chekhov of suburbia`.

Edwin Fisher has fled to a seaside resort of his childhood past to try to come to terms with the death of his baby son and the collapse of his marriage to Meg. On this strange and lonely holiday, as he seeks to understand what went wrong, Edwin must find somea way to think about what he has been and decide upon where he can go next.