Josef Birek, a young dissident writer, escapes from Communist Czechoslovakia to the West. Birek already has a reputation: his work, smuggled into England, has been published by the Comenius Foundation in London, translated by Laura Morton, the wife of a banker, who had studied Czech at Oxford University. When Birek comes to London, Laura helps him find his feet, introduces him into her circle of fashionable friends and he becomes her lover. At first Birek is lionised but soon discovers that there is a down-side to life in the free world.

Awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
'A Married Man (1980) and A Season in the West (1988) must stand as two of the very best novels of the past decade... He is a profoundly serious contemporary writer whose merits, in an age of instant reputations and mass critical rallying around dubious flags, are consistently underrated'.
D.J. Taylor, The Spectator

'A Season in the West grows in strength with every page; it is beautifully and minutely observed, by turns waspishly funny and unspeakably sad; and it offends all our prejudices. Who could ask for anything more?'
Stuart Reid, The Sunday Telegraph
'This is a subtle satire on many false and hypocritical predilections. Like anything else by its author it is exquisitely readable and civilised... The story is sustained by so much elegant and concise irony that it would be a shame to give it away... '
The Financial Times
'An entertaining and engaging read about the foibles of contemporary London society.'
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