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Brought together for the first time, two early novels from this author, set in Yorkshire, Cambridge and London between 1953 and 1959, and following the fortunes of 3 characters through academic, business and family life.
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"Large, complex, ambitious, humming with energy and ideas... A remarkable achievement" -- Iris Murdoch "Comic, well plotted, immensely touching... Gaudy excitement and splendour" The Times "One to be reckoned with. It cannot be glibly praised or readily dismissed; it is, massively, there, and demands serious consideration" Financial Times "An ambitious novel [whose] narrative everywhere displays knowledge and intelligence" Times Literary Supplement
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Enlightenment and sexuality intersect in this novel from the Booker Prize winning author of Possession and The Children's Book
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0701122617
- ISBN 13 9780701122614
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
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