num_pages: 550
description: This Whitbread Book of The Year Award winner for 1990 is the final novel of the Catastrophe Practice series. Set in the 1920s and 30s it tells the story of two young radicals, Max and Eleanor, who meet, love, separate and come together again during the maelstrom of the Spanish Civil War.
language: English
title: Hopeful Monsters
titlecomplete: Hopeful Monsters
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Philosophy, Modern Classics, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, British Literature, Historical, Novels
ratings_count: 542
series: Catastrophe Practice
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel and Book of the Year
publisher: Minerva