Synopsis
A winner of the Whitbread Award for Best Novel of the Year, a haunting novel traces the sometimes hilarious descent into madness and eventual restoration of a smart, imaginative English woman isolated in her well-to-do home who writes letters to a neighbor she barely knows.
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Review
** 'Brilliant' SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Marvellously subtle and moving' THE TIMES ** 'An ingenious, funny, satirical, sad story...Vivid and poignant' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ** 'Excellently done ... manic delusions were never so persuasive ... very moving when it is not being exceedingly funny' ANITA BROOKNER ** 'Wickedly comic ... masterly and hugely enjoyable' DAILY MAIL
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A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder.
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