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`From Charlotte Bronte's Lucy Snowe through Muriel Spark's Jean Brodie to Roald Dahl's Miss Honey, schoolmistresses have been among the
best-loved characters in fiction.In Susie Boyt's Harriet Mansfield
there is a new name to add to that list...a brilliant portrait.' Daily Mail
`Boyt is a compassionate chronicler of the human heart . . .. In Harriet Mansfield, she has drawn a character whose moral and emotional courage is both convincing and heartbreaking' Financial Times
`Boyt has a gift for creating loveable protagonists...Harriet is magnificent.' Independent.
`An exquisitely written tale of a damaged woman attempting to mend her past with a grand gesture.' Pyschologies
`An absolute gem of a novel: exquisite, diamond-bright and lacerating to the hardest of hearts.' Literary Review
`Wonderfully unexpected...brilliantly done' BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review
`From Charlotte Bronte's Lucy Snowe through Muriel Spark's Jean Brodie to Roald Dahl's Miss Honey, schoolmistresses have been among the
best-loved characters in fiction.In Susie Boyt's Harriet Mansfield
there is a new name to add to that list...a brilliant portrait.' Daily Mail
`Boyt is a compassionate chronicler of the human heart . . .. In Harriet Mansfield, she has drawn a character whose moral and emotional courage is both convincing and heartbreaking' Financial Times
`Boyt has a gift for creating loveable protagonists...Harriet is magnificent.' Independent.
`An exquisitely written tale of a damaged woman attempting to mend her past with a grand gesture.' Pyschologies
`An absolute gem of a novel: exquisite, diamond-bright and lacerating to the hardest of hearts.' Literary Review
`Wonderfully unexpected...brilliantly done' BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review
Susie Boyt is the author of five other acclaimed novels and the much-loved memoir My Judy Garland Life which was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize, staged at the Nottingham Playhouse and serialised on BBC Radio 4. She has written about art, life and fashion for the Financial Times for the past fourteen years and has recently edited The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James. She is also a director at the Hampstead Theatre.
She lives in London with her family.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
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Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 224 |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9781844088263 |
ISBN-10: | 184408826X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Boyt, Susie |
Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Maße: | 196 x 126 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Susie Boyt |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.07.2013 |
Gewicht: | 0,209 kg |
Susie Boyt is the author of five other acclaimed novels and the much-loved memoir My Judy Garland Life which was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize, staged at the Nottingham Playhouse and serialised on BBC Radio 4. She has written about art, life and fashion for the Financial Times for the past fourteen years and has recently edited The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James. She is also a director at the Hampstead Theatre.
She lives in London with her family.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
---|---|
Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 224 |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9781844088263 |
ISBN-10: | 184408826X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Boyt, Susie |
Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Maße: | 196 x 126 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Susie Boyt |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.07.2013 |
Gewicht: | 0,209 kg |