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Biographical note
Nina Bawden (1925-2012), CBE, was one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved novelists, both for adults and children (Peppermint Pig and Carrie's War being among her most famous books for young people). She has published over forty novels and an autobiography, In My Own Time. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit and her novel Family Money was filmed by Channel 4, starring Claire Boom and June Whitfield. In 2004 she received the S. T. Dupont Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Contribution to Literature.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 <b>should be read by everybody</b> interested in Spain and in women's special history in the present century
Financial Times
A personal, at times lucid and always<b> colourful account of life</b> - 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 is <b>one of the really attractive practitioners of the genre the feminine novel</b>--not a dismissive referral in her case
Kirkus Reviews
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