A Long Way From Verona - Softcover

Gardam, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349122512 ISBN 13: 9780349122519

Publisher: Abacus, 2009

Synopsis

I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'

Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her- a confining world of Order Marks, wartime restrictions, viyella dresses, nicely-restrained essays and dusty tea shops. For Jessica she has been told that she is 'beyond all possible doubt', a born writer. With her inability to conform, her absolute compulsion to tell the truth and her dedication to accurately noting her experiences, she knows this anyway. But what she doesn't know is that the experiences that sustain and enrich her burgeoning talent will one day lead to a new- and entirely unexpected- reality.

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Review:

Praise for A Long Way from Verona
-A Long Way from Verona is a brilliant, witty, and agonizingly true-to-life novel.-
--The Times Literary Supplement
-A fiercly funny and personal book.-
--The Economist
-Jane Gardam is a wonderful writer. Her understanding of character and use of language are both remarkable.-
--The Times
Praise for Jane Gardam
-Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which make characters so subtly unpredicatble that they ring true.-
--The Times Literary Supplement
-Gardam is the best kind of literary escape: serious, mesmerizing, and deeply satisfying. Who, in these times, doesn't need this kind of palliative-
--LA Review of Books

Praise for A Long Way from Verona

"A Long Way from Verona is a brilliant, witty, and agonizingly true-to-life novel."
--The Times Literary Supplement

"A fiercly funny and personal book."
--The Economist

"Jane Gardam is a wonderful writer. Her understanding of character and use of language are both remarkable."
--The Times

Praise for Jane Gardam

"Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which make characters so subtly unpredicatble that they ring true."
--The Times Literary Supplement

"Gardam is the best kind of literary escape: serious, mesmerizing, and deeply satisfying. Who, in these times, doesn't need this kind of palliative"
--LA Review of Books

About the Author:

Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was awarded an OBE in January 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0349122512
• ISBN 13: 9780349122519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242