One of Granta’s “twenty best fiction writers under forty,” the author of The Impressionist returns with a provocative, timely, and highly commercial story of long-buried secrets.

Chris Carver is living a lie. His wife, their teenage daughter, and everyone in their circle know him as Michael Frame, suburban dad. They have no idea that as a radical student in the sixties he briefly became a terrorist --- protesting the Vietnam War by setting bombs around London. And then one day a ghost from his past turns up on his doorstep, forcing Chris on the run.

As he runs, he remembers his days as an isolated youth, hopelessly in love with Anna Addison, following her as she threw aside conventionality. Chris’s rival for Anna’s affections, the charismatic Sean Ward, was the leader of the radical August 14th Group. Egging one another on, the three inched closer and closer to the edge, until the events of one horrifying night forced them apart, never to see one another again.

Mixing the public with the personal, concocting a volatile stew of politics, idealism, violence, isolation, and unrequited love, My Revolutions asks the question: What turns a radical into a terrorist?