The Sidmouth Letters
$32.26
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1988
Summary
Jane Austen’s love life—long the subject of speculation—is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like ‘The Sidmouth Letters,’ bring together past and present—with sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing, often intensely moving results.
With quiet elegance and devastating accuracy, Jane Gardam probes many and varied lives. We meet a trio of Kensington widows, mean-spirited and middle-aged, paying improbable tribute to a lon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349114088 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349114080 |
| Author: | Jane Gardam |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1988 |
| Weight: | 132g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Abacus Books |
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The economical exactitude of her observation makes each of these eleven stories a keen pleasure.
A fresh and huge delight… deliciously barbed. - GUARDIAN
The economical exactitude of her observation makes each of these eleven stories a keen pleasure. - DAILY TELEGRAPHBrilliantly observed… moving. - THE TIMES… combines an extraordinary vivid imagination with a felicity of expression, a hugely developed sense of the absurd, and the ability to involve a reader’s emotions with her characters in a few pages. - EVENING STANDARDAbout The Author
Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam is a Whitbread Award Winner and her novel GOD ON THE ROCKS was runner-up for the Booker Prize. She is winner of the David Higham Award and the Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby Prize. THE PANGS OF LOVE won the Katherine Mansfield Award. She was awarded an OBE in January 2009.
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