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A.S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt is internationally known as a novelist, short-story writer and critic. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman, as well as The Shadow of the Sun, The Game and The Biographer's Tale. Her latest novel, The Children's Book, is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. She is also the author of two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects, and four collections of stories, and has co-edited Memory: An Anthology. Educated at York and Newnham College, Cambridge, she taught at the Central School of Art and Design, and was Senior Lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

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Title:

The Virgin in the Garden (MP3)

Series:

Frederica Potter #1

Written by:

A.S. Byatt 

Read by:

Sophie Aldred 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

2 

Duration:

21 hours 1 minutes 

MP3 size:

723 MB 

Published:

August 01 2019 

Available Date:

August 01 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9780655614685 

Genres:

Fiction; Family Sagas; Historical Fiction; Sagas 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 29.95

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Booker Prize-winning author

The first instalment of the Frederica Quartet – a depiction of the social and imaginative life of England throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II’s arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curate. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. Then there is Frederica. On the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desires. The Virgin in the Garden is the first novel to feature Frederica Potter, and the beginning of a triumphant quartet of novels. Set in Yorkshire in 1952 as the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen, this is the tale of a brilliant and eccentric family fatefully divided. The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully entertaining novel, in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and comedy intersect richly and unpredictably.

'An ambitious novel [whose] narrative everywhere displays knowledge and intelligence.'
The Times Literary Supplement

'Comic, well plotted, immensely touching ... Gaudy excitement and splendour.'
The Times

'Byatt is essentially a fine, careful and very traditional storyteller.'
The New York Times