Bilgewater by Jane Gardam
*A classic novel of English adolescence
She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Observer *
Lively...excellent * The TIMES *
One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love * EVENING STANDARD *
A striking story * TLS *
Lively...excellent * The TIMES *
One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love * EVENING STANDARD *
A striking story * TLS *
Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight; and The People on Privilege Hill. Her novels include God on the Rocks, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox; The Flight of the Maidens; the bestselling Old Filth, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349114026 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349114021 |
| Title | Bilgewater |
| Author | Jane Gardam |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1985-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Winner of David Higham Prize for Fiction 1975 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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