Thin Paths by Julia Blackburn
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999.
My book of the yearBeautiful, beguiling, memorable * Edmund de Waal *
Impossible to forget...beautiful and deeply humane * Sunday Times *
Profoundly moving...absorbing...and compassionate... Blackburn writes beautifully and despite its sorrows, Thin Paths is full of humour and pulsating life * Scotsman *
Marvellous... Her writing is as eloquent and elegant as ever * Literary Review *
A lyrical patchwork of fine-grained nature writing * Independent *
Impossible to forget...beautiful and deeply humane * Sunday Times *
Profoundly moving...absorbing...and compassionate... Blackburn writes beautifully and despite its sorrows, Thin Paths is full of humour and pulsating life * Scotsman *
Marvellous... Her writing is as eloquent and elegant as ever * Literary Review *
A lyrical patchwork of fine-grained nature writing * Independent *
Julia Blackburn has written a number of books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. The Three of Us won the J. R. Ackerley Award, Threads won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award and the New Angle Prize, Time Song was shortlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize, and Thin Paths was shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography. Her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions, were both shortlisted for the Women’s Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099549420 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099549425 |
| Title | Thin Paths |
| Author | Julia Blackburn |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Costa Biography Award 2011 |
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