The Virgin in the Garden
Published on 1. December 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-0-09-947801-0 (ISBN)
Description
In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II's arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curate. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. Then there is Frederica. On the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desires.
THE FIRST FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL
THE FIRST FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL
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Large, complex, ambitious, humming with energy and ideas... A remarkable achievement -- Iris Murdoch Comic, well plotted, immensely touching... Gaudy excitement and splendour * The Times * An ambitious novel [whose] narrative everywhere displays knowledge and intelligence * Times Literary Supplement *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-947801-0 (9780099478010)
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children's Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her 'inspiring contribution to life writing' and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.