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It is 1963. Mouse Bradford, a motherless 14-year-old, has been sent to Bath Ladies College by her remote, adored father, but she doesn't like girls. Mouse's only confidantes are Alice (the hump on her back) and J.F. Kennedy, to whom she writes detailing her growing involvement with a school girl.
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Susan Swan is the author of The Biggest Modern Woman in the World andThe Last of the Golden Girls. She lives in Toronto.
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ntroduction by the author about the process of the novel becoming a film.
Now a film – Lost and Delirious – based on the bestselling novel, directed by Lea Pool and starring Piper Perabo, Jessica Paréand Mischa Barton.
This fall Susan Swan’s gothic tale of sexual longing and repression at a boarding school for proper young ladies comes to the big screen in a critically acclaimed production renamed Lost and Delirious. Renowned film critic Roger Ebert called it “one of the most carefully crafted, most professional films...at this year’s Sundance Film Festival...the characters are enormously interesting and likable [and] gorgeous.”
Now a film – Lost and Delirious – based on the bestselling novel, directed by Lea Pool and starring Piper Perabo, Jessica Paréand Mischa Barton.
This fall Susan Swan’s gothic tale of sexual longing and repression at a boarding school for proper young ladies comes to the big screen in a critically acclaimed production renamed Lost and Delirious. Renowned film critic Roger Ebert called it “one of the most carefully crafted, most professional films...at this year’s Sundance Film Festival...the characters are enormously interesting and likable [and] gorgeous.”
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- PublisherPenguin Books / Granta
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0140140816
- ISBN 13 9780140140811
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- Number of pages256
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