After the Party

Cressida Connolly’s flawless third novel “gently infiltrates” a dark chapter of history, said Anna Mundow in The Wall Street Journal. Its narrator, the youngest sister in a wealthy family, is looking back in 1979 from prison on the pre–World War II years when she was a young mother and her sisters were enthralled with Oswald Mosley, leader of Britain’s Fascist party. As she paints that bygone era, “a seed of unease, planted early, grows stealthily.” The history becomes “freshly chilling.”