Family Money by Nina Bawden
A Channel Four TV film in 1997, this is a tale about families, old age and money. The author's other titles include "Tortoise by Candlelight", "A Little Love, A Little Learning", "The Birds on the Trees", "A Woman of My Age", "Walking Naked" and "Devil by the Sea".
Her readers should be numbered like the sands of the sea. . A wonderfully satisfying novel, wise, tolerant * GUARDIAN *
Marvellous novel ... funny, subtle, sympathetic * OBSERVER *
One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists * CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN *
Marvellous novel ... funny, subtle, sympathetic * OBSERVER *
One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists * CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN *
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 | 9781860492785 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860492789 |
| Title | Family Money |
| Author | Nina Bawden |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1997-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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