Tortoise By Candlelight
Tortoise By Candlelight
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Written by the author of children's books and "Circles of Deceit". 14-year-old Emmie watches over her amiable drunken father, her evangelical grandmother, her wayward sister and Oliver. With the arrival of new neighbours, the outside world intrudes into the isolated privacy of family life.
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Tortoise By Candlelight by Nina Bawden
Written by the author of children's books and Circles of Deceit . 14-year-old Emmie watches over her amiable drunken father, her evangelical grandmother, her wayward sister and Oliver. With the arrival of new neighbours, the outside world intrudes into the isolated privacy of family life.
Nina Bawden (1925-2012) was one of Britain's best-loved writers for both adults and children. Several of her children's books - Carrie's War, a Phoenix Award winner;The Peppermint Pig, which won the Guardian Fiction Award; and Keeping Henry - have become contemporary classics. She wrote over forty novels, slightly more than half of which are for adults, and she was shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit. She received the prestigious S T Dupont Golden Pen Award for a lifetime's contribution to literature in 2004, and in 2010 The Birds on the Trees was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781853810053 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853810053 |
| Title | Tortoise By Candlelight |
| Author | Nina Bawden |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1989-05-18 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |