WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION n n SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE n n From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply mving story about love and family n n I didnt want to finish, I was enjoying it so much Evening Standard n n Thrums with intellectual sass and know-how Literary Review n n Filled with humour, generosity and contemporary sparkle Daily Telegraph n n Satirical, wise and sexy Washington Post n n Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? n n Set between New England and London, 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. n