The Virgin in the Garden
$41.51
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
7 March 1995
Summary
Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover, the first Frederica Potter novel follows our heroine as she searches for freedom and begins a love affair
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099478010 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099478013 |
| Author: | A.S. Byatt |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 1995 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 35mm |
| Series: | The Frederica Potter Novels |
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Large, complex, ambitious, humming with energy and ideas… A remarkable achievement
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 *
About The Author
A.S. Byatt
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.
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