Nina In Utopia

By Miranda Miller

Nina In Utopia is the breathtaking new novel from one of the most original women writers in the U.K., taking in time travel, Bedlam and the mad Victorian painter, Richard Dadd. London, 1854: Nina, the wife of an ambitious doctor, is heavily traumatized by the death of her young daughter and then mysteriously transported to the capital 150 years later. A tourist in the twenty-first century, she believes she is witnessing a Utopia, with the grime and evil of Victorian London expunged. She also embarks on a brief affair with a solicitous lover who introduces her to reality t.v., clubbing and takeaway curry. Returning to her own time, her husband takes fright hearing her experiences and has her committed to Bedlam, where she meets Richard Dadd and finds another Utopia under the charge of a doctor with twenty-first century ideas on patient rehabilitation. Meanwhile, her husband is on a collision course with her lover who is travelling to find her from another time . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Release date: Sep 27, 2010
• ISBN: 9780720614329

Miranda Miller

London-based Miranda Miller has written seven novels, a volume of short stories about expat life in Saudi Arabia, and a book of interviews with homeless women and politicians. She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute from 2013-15. Hilary Mantel has written of her work, ‘Miller’s intricate fictions are lit by the dark flicker of a strong and original imagination.’ The Royal Academy Magazine chose her novel The Fairy Visions of Richard Dadd as one of their six Christmas books of the year in 2013