
Call Upon the Water
Stella Tillyard(Author)
Atria Books (Publisher)
Published on 8. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-9821-2097-9 (ISBN)
Description
Spanning several decades in 17th century Great Britain and America, this "impressive piece of work, rich in historical detail and human insight" (The Sunday Times) is an unforgettable love story exploring the power of nature versus man and man versus woman.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9821-2097-9 (9781982120979)
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Person
Stella Tillyard is a British novelist and historian. She was educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her bestselling book Aristocrats was made into a miniseries for BBC1/Masterpiece Theatre, and sold to over twenty countries. Winner of the Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Longman-History Today Prize, and the Fawcett Prize, Tillyard has taught at Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, London. She is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her latest novel is Call Upon the Water (published in the UK under the title The Great Level).