First published in 1964 The Shadow of the Sun is the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of seventeen to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist. In the introduction to this edition the 1990 Booker Prize winning author looks back at the novel's genesis, and the problems she faced as a woman writing her first novel.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 17 Oct 1991
ISBN 10: 0099889609
ISBN 13: 9780099889601
Book Overview: This moving story of a young woman's struggle with her own identity was the first novel to be written by A.S. Byatt, now celebrated as one of the finest contemporary writers in the English language and author of the bestseller Possession.