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This is a novel about Orph, a strange, silent and friendless young man taken up by a young woman who offers him a room in her house. It is written by the author of "The Ice is Singing" and "Her Living Image" for which she won the Somerset Maugham Award.
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About the Author
Jane Rogers has written eight novels including Her living Image (Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Wroe's Virgins (Guardian Fiction Prize runner-up), Promised Lands (Writers Guild Best Novel Award), Island (Orange long-listed), and The Voyage Home. She has written drama for radio and TV, including an award-winning adaptation of Mr Wroe's Virgins for BBC2. Her radio work includes both original drama and Classic Serial adaptations. She has taught writing at the University of Adelaide, Paris Sorbonne IV, and on a radio-writing project in Eastern Uganda. She is Professor of Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Jane lives on the edge of the moors in Lancashire.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0006540376
- ISBN 13 9780006540373
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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