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

In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II’s arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curate. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. Then there is Frederica. On the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desires.THE FIRST FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL
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In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II’s arrival on the throne. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. On the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desires.THE FIRST FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL
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Large, complex, ambitious, humming with energy and ideas... A remarkable achievement
Enlightenment and sexuality intersect in this novel from the Booker Prize winning author of Possession and The Children's Book

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099478010
Publisert
1994-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
400 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
40 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
576

Forfatter

Biographical note

A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was 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.