# A Radical Romance

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- Authors: [Alison Light](https://www.bookquiver.com/alison-light)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-10-31

## Description

Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Twenty years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic socialist from a very different background to Alison's working-class family. Within a year they were married. Within ten, Raphael would be dead. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage, Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together, its intimacies and its estrangements. She tells of moving into Raphael's cluttered 18th-century house in Spitalfields and into his equally full, unconventional life; of the whirlwind of change outside their door which brutally transformed London's old East End districts; of being widowed at 41, and finding inspiration in her friendship with Raphael's mother. A Radical Romance is a luminous and deeply intelligent memoir of love and grief.

## Editions

### A Radical Romance

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-535-0
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Language: en_GB

### A Radical Romance

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4124-451-7
- Published: 2019-10-31
- Language: en_GB