Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop

Witting, Amy

ISBN 10: 0140286349 / ISBN 13: 9780140286342

Published by Penguin Books, 1999

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Review:
Quietly brilliantWitting's characterizations are staggeringly sharpit is hard to imagine a novel more keenly observedsimultaneously heartbreaking and (subtly) hilarious, not because they're exaggerated, but because they are so unsettlingly, overwhelmingly trueA compassionate masterpiece. "Kirkus" (starred review)"
'Quietly brilliant...Witting's characterizations are staggeringly sharp--it is hard to imagine a novel more keenly observed--simultaneously heartbreaking and (subtly) hilarious, not because they're exaggerated, but because they are so unsettlingly, overwhelmingly true...A compassionate masterpiece.'--Kirkus (starred review)

Bibliographic Details

Title: Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Secondhand, Paperback
Book Type: Secondhand, Paperback