Everything Will Be All Right: A Novel

Everything Will Be All Right: A Novel

<p>When Joyce Stevenson is thirteen, her family moves to the south of England to live with their aunt Vera. Vera and her sister Lil aren't at all alike. Vera, a teacher, has unquestioning belief in the powers of education and reason; Lil puts her faith in seances. Joyce is determined to be different: she falls in love with art (and her art teacher). Spanning five decades of extraordinary change in women's lives, <i>Everything Will Be All Right </i>explores the tangled history of one family and the disasters, hopes, compromises, and ambitions of successive generations.</p>