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Fallout
A Novel by Eleanor Anstruther, author of A Perfect Explanation
A dazzling, defiant coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the Greenham Women’s Peace Camp—where punk, protest, and unexpected love collide.
It’s the winter of 1982, and fifteen-year-old Bridget is done playing by the rules. With a walkman in her pocket and rebellion in her blood, she runs away from her dead-end town—and her tightly wound parents—to join the anti-nuclear women’s protest at Greenham Common.
What she finds there isn’t just a camp, but a world: drag queens with backcombed hair and bigger truths, mothers trading aprons for activism, and a kind of love that rewrites every story she’s ever been told. Including her own.
As Bridget’s absence sends shockwaves through her family, her father—a closeted trans woman—and her lunch-lady mother must confront the fallout of their own secrets. What unfolds is a luminous journey of reckoning, rewilding, and radical self-acceptance.
Fierce, funny, and unforgettable, Fallout is for anyone who’s ever questioned the script and decided to rewrite it.Perfect for fans of Fleabag, Bad Sisters, and literary fiction that doesn’t flinch.
“A dazzling and unexpectedly hilarious novel that melds the irreverent wit of Fleabag with the biting dynamics of Bad Sisters.”
—Alisa Kennedy Jones, Publisher of Empress Editions
“This book should be required reading. It inspires critical thinking about identity, resilience, and societal growth.”
—Kimberly Warner, author of Unfixed
Fallout
A Novel by Eleanor Anstruther, author of A Perfect Explanation
A dazzling, defiant coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the Greenham Women’s Peace Camp—where punk, protest, and unexpected love collide.
It’s the winter of 1982, and fifteen-year-old Bridget is done playing by the rules. With a walkman in her pocket and rebellion in her blood, she runs away from her dead-end town—and her tightly wound parents—to join the anti-nuclear women’s protest at Greenham Common.
What she finds there isn’t just a camp, but a world: drag queens with backcombed hair and bigger truths, mothers trading aprons for activism, and a kind of love that rewrites every story she’s ever been told. Including her own.
As Bridget’s absence sends shockwaves through her family, her father—a closeted trans woman—and her lunch-lady mother must confront the fallout of their own secrets. What unfolds is a luminous journey of reckoning, rewilding, and radical self-acceptance.
Fierce, funny, and unforgettable, Fallout is for anyone who’s ever questioned the script and decided to rewrite it.Perfect for fans of Fleabag, Bad Sisters, and literary fiction that doesn’t flinch.
“A dazzling and unexpectedly hilarious novel that melds the irreverent wit of Fleabag with the biting dynamics of Bad Sisters.”
—Alisa Kennedy Jones, Publisher of Empress Editions
“This book should be required reading. It inspires critical thinking about identity, resilience, and societal growth.”
—Kimberly Warner, author of Unfixed