Sweet William
$48.39
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2013
Summary
‘People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concentrated entirely on his pink face crowned with foppish curls.’
Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother’s ambitions - more or less - while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people. Then she meets William: snub-nosed and generous, cunning and protean. She is first se…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844088621 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844088626 |
| Author: | Beryl Bainbridge, Alex Clark |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Cunningly clever, wry, dry, sharply pointed
Cunningly clever, wry, dry, sharply pointed - Evening Standard
Alarming humour and a powerful talent - Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge was one of the greatest living novelists. Author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won many literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.
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