Daughters Of The House by Michele Roberts
Utterly beguiling' Joanna Trollope
Remarkable and beautifully written * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *
A brave and richly imagined novel, full of thrilling set piecesThe new prestige it seems likely to earn for one of our best writers is long overdue. * GUARDIAN *
Subtle and persuasive * COSMOPOLITAN *
An intense piece of writing, in which the transfigured mundane world of recipes, parental prohibitions and almost ritualised gossip is posed against official purity and religiosity, and shown to be superior. * TLS *
A brave and richly imagined novel, full of thrilling set piecesThe new prestige it seems likely to earn for one of our best writers is long overdue. * GUARDIAN *
Subtle and persuasive * COSMOPOLITAN *
An intense piece of writing, in which the transfigured mundane world of recipes, parental prohibitions and almost ritualised gossip is posed against official purity and religiosity, and shown to be superior. * TLS *
Michele Roberts is the author of eleven highly-acclaimed novels as well as short stories and poetry, most recently collected in All the Selves I Was. Half-English and half-French, she lives in London and Mayenne, France.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781853816000 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853816000 |
| Title | Daughters Of The House |
| Author | Michele Roberts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1993-03-11 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 1994, Winner of WH Smith Annual Literary Award 1993, Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1993, Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1992 |
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