Winner of Orange Prize 2006
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005

Set in New England mainly and London partly, 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 More...Kipps, theconfusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family