A Whistling Woman

Full of new energy and a sense of new directions… The plot has a driving ferocity, the huge and extraordinary cast marshaled with exceptional dexterity * Spectator *
In this concluding installment [of her quartet of novels], Byatt blends her own excitement at ‘intellectual curiosity of any kind’ with a lucid narrative and gripping plot… I suspect her fans will be hoping for a fifth * Independent *
An intellectual adventure full of energy and vitality [with] solid delights, keen and demanding pleasure * Scotsman *
Rich in metaphor and glancing allusion… Predominantly a novel of ideas. It makes a fine conclusion to the quartet * The Economist *
Brilliant and densely written…it’s an absorbing read * Daily Mail *
A vast, intricate and highly readable tale of intellectual curiosity spanning the tensions between ideas and religion, science and television, anarchy and the intellectual establishment, the counterculture and academia, visionaries and madness The hothouse atmosphere of experimentation and the quest for new ways of seeing and being is tackled with questioning perception. – Stephanie Merritt * The Observer *

A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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