Summary
Harriet Mansfield, brave, wry and handsome, is determined to triumph no matter what. With a decade of therapy under her belt and a new large inheritance, it seems there is nothing she cannot achieve.
So she decides to open the school of her dreams. To her precious little girls, rich in everything but care, she vows to provide the happiest childhoods in the world. For everyone knows that early years passed in delightful ways can set you up for life.
But can this ambitious new d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844088263 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184408826X |
| Author: | Susie Boyt |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 199g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 200mm |
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Critics Review
The Small Hours is an absolute gem of a novel: exquisite, diamond-bright and lacerating to the hardest of hearts
The Small Hours excites with refined delights … Boyt’s economical prose remains elegantly polished, her descriptions of the subtleties of psychotherapy spine-tingling … A meaty yet accessible novel possessing great psychological rigour - Sunday Times - Lucy Beresford
Boyt is a compassionate chronicler of the human heart … The point of this novel is not whether your dreams succeed or fail, but whether you’re still willing to risk having dreams at all. In Harriet Mansfield, Boyt has drawn a character whose moral and emotional courage is both convincing and heartbreaking - Financial Times - Rebecca AbramsThe Small Hours is an absolute gem of a novel: exquisite, diamond-bright and lacerating to the hardest of hearts - Literary Review - Amanda CraigSusie Boyt
Susie Boyt is the author of four acclaimed novels and a memoir, MY JUDY GARLAND LIFE, which was serialised on Radio 4 and will be staged at the Nottingham Playhouse in spring 2013. Since 2002 she has written a weekly column about art and life for the Financial Times. She lives in London with her family.
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