Ignorance by Michèle Roberts
A stunning war-time novel set in France from Booker-shortlisted author Michele Roberts
A gripping story of fear, arrests and personal tragedy * Independent *
Moving and involvingOnly the most hard-hearted reader will resist its spider web of injustices * The Times *
Powerful and lyrical ... Her deceptively simple narrative provides a devastating critique of religious hypocrisy and bourgeois morality, couched in gloriously pointillist prose * Michael Arditti, Daily Mail *
A magnificent writer * Helen Dunmore, Guardian *
Roberts' description of heartache, loss and guilt is breathtaking. Simply brilliant * Irish Examiner *
Brilliantly poetic * Independent *
Moving and involvingOnly the most hard-hearted reader will resist its spider web of injustices * The Times *
Powerful and lyrical ... Her deceptively simple narrative provides a devastating critique of religious hypocrisy and bourgeois morality, couched in gloriously pointillist prose * Michael Arditti, Daily Mail *
A magnificent writer * Helen Dunmore, Guardian *
Roberts' description of heartache, loss and guilt is breathtaking. Simply brilliant * Irish Examiner *
Brilliantly poetic * Independent *
Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and, most recently, the highly-acclaimed Ignorance, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. Her memoir Paper Houses was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. She has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in Mud: Stories of Sex and Love. Half-English and half-French, Michèle Roberts lives in London and in the Mayenne, France. She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408831151 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408831155 |
| Title | Ignorance |
| Author | Michèle Roberts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2013-03-14 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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