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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:: A Whistling Woman (MP3)
Series:: Frederica Potter #4
Written by:: A.S. Byatt
Read by:: Sophie Aldred
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 17 hours 8 minutes
MP3 size:: 618 MB
Published:: February 01 2020
Available Date:: February 01 2020
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9780655628248
Genres:: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Sagas
Publisher:: Bolinda/Audible audio

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Booker Prize-winning author

A Whistling Woman portrays the antic, thrilling and dangerous period of the late '60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times.

It is the late 1960s and the world begins to split. While Frederica, the spirited heroine, falls into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life and those of the people she loves. Near the university, where the scientists Luk and Jacqueline are studying snails, neurons and the working of the brain, an "anti-university" springs up. On the high moors nearby a gentle therapeutic community is taken over by a turbulent, charismatic leader. Meanwhile, visions of blood and flames, of mirrors and doubles, share the refracting energy of Frederica's mosaic-like television shows.

'Rich, acerbic, and wise, A Whistling Woman ... tackles nothing less than what it means to be human.'
Vogue

'Brilliant and densely written.'
Daily Mail