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The Virgin In The Garden

The Virgin In The Garden

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

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Synopsis

The Virgin in the Garden is the first novel to feature Frederica Potter, and the beginning of a triumphant quartet of novels. Set in Yorkshire in 1952 as the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen, this is the tale of a brilliant and eccentric family fatefully divided. The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully entertaining novel, in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and comedy intersect richly and unpredictably.

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Format: paperback
 Publisher: Vintage
Published:
ISBN 10: 0099478013
ISBN 13: 9780099478010
Book Overview: Enlightenment and sexuality intersect in this novel from the Booker Prize winning author of Possession and The Children's Book

Media Reviews
Large, complex, ambitious, humming with energy and ideas... A remarkable achievement -- Iris Murdoch
Comic, well plotted, immensely touching... Gaudy excitement and splendour * The Times *
An ambitious novel [whose] narrative everywhere displays knowledge and intelligence * Times Literary Supplement *
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.