A Long Way From Verona
$24.67
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2009
Summary
‘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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349122519 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349122512 |
| Author: | Jane Gardam |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Jane Gardam
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.
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