Mine Özyurt Kiliç is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.

One can end here with hope, as Gee’s novels so often do, that Kiliç’s attention to her work raises her profile, promotes wider reading of her fiction, and aids the enacting of its wish that it might change readers’ opinions and actions enough to have palpable effects on the betterment of humankind, in Britain and beyond. It certainly has the power to do so.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Part 1: Introduction1. Contextualising Maggie Gee's Fiction Part 2: Major Works 2. Author Flinging Herself From the Ivory Tower: Dying, In Other Words 3. Of the Nuclear Family and the Hibakusha: The Burning Book4. Telescopic View of England, England: Light Years5. Hard Times: Grace and Where Are the Snows6. Are Such Things Done on Albion's Shore?: Lost Children 7. Environmental Crisis, from Fact to Fiction: The Ice People and The Flood8. Of the Two Nations: The White Family9. Authorship in a Globalised World: My Cleaner and My DriverPart 3: Criticism and Contexts10. Author InterviewNotes BibliographyIndex

Mine Özyurt Kiliç is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.

One can end here with hope, as Gee’s novels so often do, that Kiliç’s attention to her work raises her profile, promotes wider reading of her fiction, and aids the enacting of its wish that it might change readers’ opinions and actions enough to have palpable effects on the betterment of humankind, in Britain and beyond. It certainly has the power to do so.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Part 1: Introduction1. Contextualising Maggie Gee's Fiction Part 2: Major Works 2. Author Flinging Herself From the Ivory Tower: Dying, In Other Words 3. Of the Nuclear Family and the Hibakusha: The Burning Book4. Telescopic View of England, England: Light Years5. Hard Times: Grace and Where Are the Snows6. Are Such Things Done on Albion's Shore?: Lost Children 7. Environmental Crisis, from Fact to Fiction: The Ice People and The Flood8. Of the Two Nations: The White Family9. Authorship in a Globalised World: My Cleaner and My DriverPart 3: Criticism and Contexts10. Author InterviewNotes BibliographyIndex

Mine Özyurt Kiliç is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.

One can end here with hope, as Gee’s novels so often do, that Kiliç’s attention to her work raises her profile, promotes wider reading of her fiction, and aids the enacting of its wish that it might change readers’ opinions and actions enough to have palpable effects on the betterment of humankind, in Britain and beyond. It certainly has the power to do so.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Part 1: Introduction1. Contextualising Maggie Gee's Fiction Part 2: Major Works 2. Author Flinging Herself From the Ivory Tower: Dying, In Other Words 3. Of the Nuclear Family and the Hibakusha: The Burning Book4. Telescopic View of England, England: Light Years5. Hard Times: Grace and Where Are the Snows6. Are Such Things Done on Albion's Shore?: Lost Children 7. Environmental Crisis, from Fact to Fiction: The Ice People and The Flood8. Of the Two Nations: The White Family9. Authorship in a Globalised World: My Cleaner and My DriverPart 3: Criticism and Contexts10. Author InterviewNotes BibliographyIndex