A Woman Of My Age by Nina Bawden
Elizabeth and Richard, 18 years married, have come to Morocco on holiday. As the adventures and disasters of their travels unfold, so too does Elizabeth's account of the desert her life has become. The author's book Circles of Deceit was shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize.
Absorbing and quietly uncompromising, redolent with the vibrant smells and colours of Majorca, and of Spain * Daily Telegraph *
A highly revealing account, not only of a woman's life, but of a whole extraordinary passage in one contemporary European country..it should be read by everybody interested in Spain and in women's special history in the present century * Financial Times *
A personal, at times lucid and always colourful account of life - and a life - in post-war Spain * Sunday Times *
It is unfair to look for a poetic sensibility in the daughter of a poet, yet Lucia Graves has plenty of it. She is a fine writer * Literary Review *
A highly revealing account, not only of a woman's life, but of a whole extraordinary passage in one contemporary European country..it should be read by everybody interested in Spain and in women's special history in the present century * Financial Times *
A personal, at times lucid and always colourful account of life - and a life - in post-war Spain * Sunday Times *
It is unfair to look for a poetic sensibility in the daughter of a poet, yet Lucia Graves has plenty of it. She is a fine writer * Literary Review *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781853813221 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853813222 |
| Title | A Woman Of My Age |
| Author | Nina Bawden |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1991-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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