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About the Author:
Bernice Rubens was born is Wales and worked as both a writer and a film maker. She is the winner of the Booker Prize for The Elected Member, and was shortlisted for the same prize for a subsequent novel: A Five Year Sentence. She died in 2004.
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She has a large compassion, and an intelligence which makes her compulsively readable.―NEW STATESMAN
The writing sparkles and flickers and blazes.―JEWISH CHRONICLE
The novel moves from intense emotion to humour and pathos to the frightening realisation that those who are surrounded by the insane quickly become insane themselves. Read it.―DARTS
Splendidly sane, compassionate and often grotesquely funny.―DAILY TELEGRAPH
The writing sparkles and flickers and blazes.―JEWISH CHRONICLE
The novel moves from intense emotion to humour and pathos to the frightening realisation that those who are surrounded by the insane quickly become insane themselves. Read it.―DARTS
Splendidly sane, compassionate and often grotesquely funny.―DAILY TELEGRAPH
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- PublisherSphere Books
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0722175299
- ISBN 13 9780722175293
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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