A Whistling Woman (The Frederica Potter Novels)

A Whistling Woman (The Frederica Potter Novels)

by A S Byatt (Author), A S Byatt (Author), A S Byatt (Author)

Synopsis

This intoxicating novel stands on its own, while forming a triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatt's great quartet depicting the clashing forces in English life from the early 1950s to 1970. While Frederica falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves. A Whistling Woman is the ultimate novel of ideas made flesh - gloriously sensual, sexy and scary, bursting with ideas, and wonderful humanity.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Sep 2003

ISBN 10: 0099443392
ISBN 13: 9780099443391
Book Overview: 'Rich, acerbic, and wise, A Whistling Woman is the ambitious novel of ideas we've come to expect from Byatt, and tackles nothing less than what it means to be human' Vogue

Media Reviews
Full of new energy and a sense of new directions... The plot has a driving ferocity, the huge and extraordinary cast marshaled with exceptional dexterity * Spectator *
In this concluding installment [of her quartet of novels], Byatt blends her own excitement at 'intellectual curiosity of any kind' with a lucid narrative and gripping plot... I suspect her fans will be hoping for a fifth * Independent *
An intellectual adventure full of energy and vitality [with] solid delights, keen and demanding pleasure * Scotsman *
Rich in metaphor and glancing allusion... Predominantly a novel of ideas. It makes a fine conclusion to the quartet * The Economist *
Brilliant and densely written...it's an absorbing read * Daily Mail *
Author Bio
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children's Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her `inspiring contribution to life writing' and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.