Winter Garden
$49.01
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2004
Summary
Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds adultery a terrible strain.
He tells his wife that he needs a rest, so she happily packs him off for a fishing holiday in the Highlands. Only, unknown to her, Douglas is actually flying off to Moscow with Nina, as a guest of the Soviet Artists’ Union. It is then that things begin to get…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349116099 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349116091 |
| Author: | Beryl Bainbridge |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2004 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 16mm |
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‘Brilliant … marvellous comedy … a tour de force’ OBSERVER ‘A very funny as well as a frightening book’ GUARDIAN ‘Marvellously deft … comedy is secreted everywhere, like honey; but it is a surreal little honeycomb, with sharp teeth’ TLS
About The Author
Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won 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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