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** 'If you read only one novel this year, make sure it is The Clothes on Their Backs (SUNDAY EXPRESS)
** 'It's a sublimely atmospheric and moving novel (LONDON PAPER)
** 'This is a vivid, enjoyable and consistently unexpected novel (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH)
** 'THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS is a return to the form of Grant's first and best novel, The Cast Iron Shore. Gripping and written with keen understatement, it manages to be a domestic coming-of-age novel... It is, in other words, that rare thing, a novel of (Rachel Cooke, EVENING STANDARD)
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** 'It's a sublimely atmospheric and moving novel (LONDON PAPER)
** 'This is a vivid, enjoyable and consistently unexpected novel (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH)
** 'THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS is a return to the form of Grant's first and best novel, The Cast Iron Shore. Gripping and written with keen understatement, it manages to be a domestic coming-of-age novel... It is, in other words, that rare thing, a novel of (Rachel Cooke, EVENING STANDARD)
The brilliant new novel by Orange Prize winner, Linda Grant, about the legacies of history, set in 1970s London
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1844085406
- ISBN 13 9781844085408
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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