An Equal Stillness
Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers 2009
$28.90
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2009
Summary
Jennet Mallow is born in Yorkshire in the 1920s, but her interest in art and creativity alienates her from her family: her father, who is a priest, her conventional sister, and her emotionally stunted mother. Jennet moves to London in search of a more exciting life and finds it in her new environment and in the handsome and enigmatic figure of the painter David Heaton.
When Jennet falls pregnant, her parents more or less force the two to marry. In the post-war austerity of the 1940s, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753825655 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753825651 |
| Author: | Francesca Kay |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 273g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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‘What distinguishes this tale…is Kay’s fine balance of romance and realism and her beautiful evocation of how paintings reflect their creator’s experiences.’
A new star has arrived on the literary scene. - EVENING STANDARD - AN Wilson
What distinguishes this tale…is Kay’s fine balance of romance and realism and her beautiful evocation of how paintings reflect their creator’s experiences. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHone dazzingly brilliantly executed scene after another…A marvel. - INDEPENDENTAn impressive debut novel that paints a vivid portrait of a woman torn between the conflicts of creativity and familial duty. - DAILY EXPRESSsensual…Francesca Kay knows - and shows - how good art takes on a life all of its own. - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYan absorbing and ambitious debut - GUARDIANThe supple, verbless sentences of Fracesca Kay’s accomplished first novel create a sensuous prose full of colour, taste and smell. - DAILY TELEGRAPH - Anthony CumminsThis is an outstanding literary debut, with masterful variation in style and characterisation of deep insight - BOOKSELLER PAPERBACK PREVIEWAbout The Author
Francesca Kay
Francesca Kay grew up in South-east Asia and India and has subsequently lived in Jamaica, the United States, Germany and Ireland. She now lives in Oxford with her family and works in British-Irish relations.
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