Holly Williams - A szerelem ideje

The story of a relationship in three different times: what would happen if the same couple met in the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s?
In seemingly effortless prose, Holly Williams creates characters so vivid that every time we meet them, we desperately want to know what their story will be.
When Violet and Albert first meet, they are always 20 years old. They come together in moments that define the given generation. Post-war Britain and the establishment of the welfare state, the end of the progressive and psychedelic '60s, and the hopeful '80s with acid house and the ecstasy revolution. They fall in love during very different eras of great change, and each part of the book focuses on the new phase of their relationship. The first part focuses on the heady early moments of first love; the second witnesses a painful breakdown, while the third sees Albert and Violet discover what it means when two people say they're going to stay together.
The novel presents the huge changes in society in the second half of the 20th century. Violet comes from a working-class Welsh family and faces new class and gender expectations throughout the novel. Albert is from an aristocratic Yorkshire family, privately educated and wealthy, but burdened by expectations of duty, propriety and status that he wishes to escape.
An overwhelming, nostalgic and amazingly captivating love story. A perfect read for fans of Laura Barnett's Variations on a Couple, Kate Eberlen's Miss You and Sally Rooney's Normal People.

The manuscript of Holly Williams' debut novel was bought by British publisher Orion for a six-figure sum, and was published in ten other countries that month.

About the author:
Holly Williams is a journalist who worked for The Independent for six years. His articles have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The FT, The Telegraph, The iNewspaper, ELLE, and the BBC. He also regularly returns to The Independent as arts editor. He is currently the theater critic for Time Out and The Mail on Sunday, and writes book reviews for The Observer and The TLS. Born in Wales, currently lives in Sheffield. The time of love is his first novel.