Knowledge of Angels - Softcover
A fable-like tale, set in the Middle Ages, focuses on two outcasts, an atheist prince and a wolf child confined to a nunnery, who become pawns in a theological controversy. Booker Prize nominee. Reprint.
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"'A compelling medieval fable, written from the heart and melded to a driving narrative which never once loses its tremendous pace'" (Guardian)
"'An irresistible blend of intellect and passion'" (Mail on Sunday)
"'This remarkable novel resembles an illuminated manuscript mapped with angels and mountains and signposts, an allegory for today and yesterday too. A beautiful, unsettling moral fiction about virtue and intolerance'" (Observer)
"'Remarkable...Utterly absorbing...richly detailed and finely imagined'" (Sunday Telegraph)
"'The lucidity of Jill Paton Walsh's style and the dexerity of the narrative are such that her book reads more like a good thriller than a weighty novel of ideas...An ingenious fable'" (The Times)
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"'An irresistible blend of intellect and passion'" (Mail on Sunday)
"'This remarkable novel resembles an illuminated manuscript mapped with angels and mountains and signposts, an allegory for today and yesterday too. A beautiful, unsettling moral fiction about virtue and intolerance'" (Observer)
"'Remarkable...Utterly absorbing...richly detailed and finely imagined'" (Sunday Telegraph)
"'The lucidity of Jill Paton Walsh's style and the dexerity of the narrative are such that her book reads more like a good thriller than a weighty novel of ideas...An ingenious fable'" (The Times)
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
'Remarkable...Utterly absorbing...richly detailed and finely imagined' Sunday Telegraph
'A compelling medieval fable, written from the heart and melded to a driving narrative which never once loses its tremendous pace' Guardian
'This remarkable novel resembles an illuminated manuscript mapped with angels and mountains and signposts, an allegory for today and yesterday too. A beautiful, unsettling moral fiction about virtue and intolerance' Observer
'The lucidity of Jill Paton Walsh's style and the dexerity of the narrative are such that her book reads more like a good thriller than a weighty novel of ideas...An ingenious fable' The Times
'An irresistible blend of intellect and passion' Mail on Sunday
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- PublisherBantam Dell Pub Group
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0553374753
- ISBN 13 9780553374759
- BindingPaperback
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