+1

by Katherine Bucknell

At fifty, Alice Gregory discovers that she can't really see anymore. So she buys a pair of drugstore reading glasses, strength +1, and her suburban life looks magically more inviting. Can she, with the power of her mature vision, negotiate life more successfully than she did as a young woman? When tragedy devastates the Gregory family, Alice's husband, Richard, puts on her glasses, struggling to see their marriage and three sons through Alice's eyes. Shifting in perspective between Alice and Richard, Katherine Bucknell tells a beguiling, ultimately joyful, story. +1 is a sparkling, resonant exploration of what it means to love completely and of our limitless need to grow and change.

287 pages, ebook

First published April 1, 2013

About the author

Katherine Bucknell was born in Saigon in 1957 and grew up in Washington, D.C. She has degrees from Princeton, Oxford, and Columbia Universities and lives in London with her husband, Bob Maguire, and their three children.

She is the editor of W.H. Auden's Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928, four volumes of diaries by Christopher Isherwood, and The Animals, a volume of letters between Christopher Isherwood and his partner Don Bachardy. She is co-editor of Auden Studies, a founder of The W.H. Auden Society, and director of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.

She has published four novels, Canarino, Leninsky Prospekt, What You Will, and +1.