When Tessa's best friend organises a surprise TV makeover, Tessa is horrified. It's the last thing she needs - her business is on the brink of collapse, her marriage is under strain and her daughter is more interested in beauty pageants than student politi. What's more, the 'Greenham Common angle' the TV producers have devised reopens some personal history Tessa has tried to hide away. Then Angela gets in touch, Tessa's least favourite member of the Greenham gang, and she's drawn back into her muddy past. Moving between the present and 1982, and set against the mass protests which touched thousands of women's lives, Love and Fallout is a book about friendship, motherhood and the accidents that make us who we are. A hugely entertaining novel from debut novelist and award-winning poet Kathryn Simmonds.

Kathryn Simmonds is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. Her poetry collection Sunday at the Skin Launderette (Seren, 2008) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. She has also received prizes for her short fiction, including first prize in the Daunt Books short story competition and commendations in the Bridport Prize and the Asham Award. Her story, 'The Chest', appears in the Tindal Street anthology Roads Ahead edited by Catherine O'Flynn and is reprinted in The Barcelona Review. 'The Handover Notes' was read on Radio 4 by Maureen Lipman, and three other short stories have since been broadcast. Her comic radio play Poetry for Beginners was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2008. The manuscript for Songs of Love and Fallout received an Arts Council grant towards completion. Kathryn lives in North London with her husband and baby daughter.