num_pages: 320
description: Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf. It is written by their liberal parents, features tasteful pastel illustrations of their lovemaking, and has become a runaway bestseller. Thirty years later the book is set to be reissued but the lives of the Mellow family are no longer the same: their children grapple with complicated 21st century problems and the iconic couple's perfect marriage has not run as smoothly as everyone has assumed...
language: English
title: The Position
titlecomplete: The Position
genres: Fiction, Family, Relationships, Book Club, Adult, Marriage, Novels, Contemporary, Sexuality, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 4859
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Vintage Books