A Long Way From Verona by Jane Gardam - ISBN: 9780349122519
Paperback
A girl’s violent past fuels a writer’s escape to a new reality.

A Long Way From Verona

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    1 July 2009

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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
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
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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