On Beauty

On Beauty by Zadie Smith, author of the prize-winning White Teeth, is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family.

Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families — the Belseys and the Kipps — and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love.

For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions — both personal and political — of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home — right to the heart of family.