Girl Reading

AvKatie Ward

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

138 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Fler format och utgåvor

Häftad

333 kr

Beskrivning

An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist's servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young man who takes her picture, and a Victorian medium holds a book that she barely acknowledges while she waits for the exposure.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-01-05
Mått:126 x 198 x 26 mm
Vikt:287 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:9781844086870

Utforska kategorier

Moderna och samtida romaner inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Katie Ward is an author and creative writing lecturer in Suffolk. Her first novel Girl Reading was a Cactus TV Book Club selection and a book of the week on The Oprah Blog. She received the Clarissa Luard Award in 2013 from Hilary Mantel.

Recensioner i media

A real wow of a first novel. The premise is alarmingly simple and yet somehow stunning: seven portraits, seven artists, seven girls and women reading . . . A wonderful, imaginative evocation of seven different worlds . . . It's very rare for a novel to have a real freshness and originality but at the same time to evoke echoes of other literary memories. This feels incredibly clever. It's a book packed full of adventures and stories and you completely lose yourself in them . . . This book's great strength: the perfect, separate, involving worlds it creates. Like Mitchell, Ward is equally adept at shifting between completely different registers and voices . . . It [has] real beating heart . . . It will be fascinating to see what she writes next