The Dark Circle
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
$34.23
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2017
Summary
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
‘Extraordinarily affecting’ Alex Preston, Observer
‘This is a novel whose engine is flesh and blood, not cold ideas … Grant brings the 1950s - that odd, downbeat, fertile decade between war and sexual liberation - into sharp, bright, heartbreaking focus’ - Christobel Kent Guardian
All over Britain life is beginning again now the war is over but for Lenny and Miriam, East End London …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349006789 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349006784 |
| Author: | Linda Grant |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 218mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
Exhilaratingly good … This is a novel whose engine is flesh and blood, not cold ideas … Grant brings the 1950s - that odd, downbeat, fertile decade between war and sexual liberation - into sharp, bright, heartbreaking focus - Guardian
Contemporary issues linger ominously in Grant’s margins, silently enriching what’s already an astonishingly good period piece - IndependentA rich, engaging novel, further proof that Grant can conjure up a special mood in a specific period with great humour - Sunday TelegraphAn extraordinary depiction of the physical and emotional experience of illness. She marvellously communicates the poignancy of youth and sexuality in the presence of impending death. Grant’s voice is unlike any other writer; so immediate and engaged even when writing historical fictionAbout The Author
Linda Grant
Linda Grant is author of four non-fiction books and eight novels. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000, the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of York and Liverpool John Moores University. The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and went on to win the South Bank Show Award; The Dark Circle was shortlisted for the 2017 Women’s Prize for Fiction; A Stranger City won the 2000 Wingate Literary Prize. Linda Grant lives in London.
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