The Price of Water in Finistère
$26.75
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2006
Summary
At just the point when most sensible people are settling into the routines of middle age, a feisty, fiercely independent woman abandons her home for a new life in another country. ‘In the same way as there’s a partner for every person, there’s a place. All you have to do is find the one that’s yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have to choose.’
With this conviction in mind, acclaimed Swedish writer Bodil Malmsten abandons her native country…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099466673 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099466678 |
| Author: | Bodil Malmsten |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2006 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
At just the point when most sensible people are settling into the routines of middle age, a fiercely independent woman abandons her home for a new life in France.
“Lively, enchanting and deeply serious…Abounds in wonderful descriptions of her intimate relationships with plant-life, and in seascapes…Extremely funny” Guardian “Hilarious, heartwarming and movingly honest. This is a book about self-exile and creation that only a poet could write” – Adam Thorpe “I loved the comments about English gardening as preposterous, and her ability to conjure so much out of so little without ever leaving her garden… Truly wonderful” – Gerard Woodward “Lyrical and pithy, full of wry humour, yet weightier than most fat tomes, The Price of Water in Finistere is a book about the past and the state of the world we have created… I adored it” – Lisa Appignanesi
About The Author
Bodil Malmsten
Born in J mtland in northern Sweden, Bodil Malmsten lived in Stockholm for 40 years before moving to Brittany in 2000. Having started out as a children’s author, she turned to TV and radio, then to writing, translating and directing plays for TV and the stage, including work by Joe Orton. Her first book of poems, published in 1977, was followed by six further collections and two volumes of short stories. Malmsten is active as a journalist and public speaker, and is also the author of three prize-winning novels.
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