The Green Lady by Sally Bayley

The Green Lady by Sally Bayley

From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers.

EARLY PRAISE FOR THE GREEN LADY:

‘Sally Bayley’s The Green Lady is a beguiling, experimental mixture of biography, fiction and family history…The prose is glancing and poetic, suffused with gentle melancholy, yet bursting with connections that anticipate, tease and delight… There is much here of art and literature as succour for the soul, and this charming, original and poignant book shines with intellectual and imaginative fire’ SPECTATOR

‘With each new book, Sally Bayley seems to invent a new literary genreThe Green Lady is another bulletin from her unique imagination – a marvel of formal originality and verbal ingenuity. There is no other writer remotely like her’ MATT ROWLAND HILL, author of Original Sins

‘In a beguiling blend of memoir and storytelling, the author of Girl with Dove and No Boys Play Here explores the relationship between children and their teachers, and the sustaining power of literature, especially for those growing up in poverty or dealing with neglect and abuse. In search of a better plot, Bayley’s protagonist seeks out her maternal ancestors, and other women in history who have paved a path to independence, happiness and artistic freedom in a space of one’s own. No one writes quite like Bayley—she’s a true, precious original’ CAROLINE SANDERSON, The Bookseller

‘A unique piece of writing which is enthralling and leaves one tasting the salt air of nostalgia. The reader delights in her word play, her deftness and playfulness, painterly and yet essentially three dimensional: a living canvas which is a feat of magic and alchemy’ Pratima Mitchell

Sally Bayley is a writer and lecturer in English at Hertford College, Oxford. She is the author of a number of books including Girl With Dove and No Boys Play Here. She writes and performs A Reading Life, A Writing Life, a podcast for a world in crisis. Her website is: https://sallybayley.com/

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ISBN 13	9780008414221
ISBN 10	000841422X
Title	The Green Lady
Author	Sally Bayley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2023-07-20
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.