Family Money (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Bawden, Nina

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9781844083183: Family Money (Virago Modern Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1844083187 ISBN 13: 9781844083183

Publisher: Virago UK, 2006

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Fanny Pye's London house, bought for a song many years earlier, is now worth a small fortune. When she intervenes in a street brawl and is hospitalised, her children tactfully suggest that she move to the suburbs, coincidently releasing some useful 'family money'. Fanny has different views about inheritance and property and is anyway more concerned that she cannot properly remember the events of that night which ended in the death of a stranger. Then, as her amnesia clears, she is overwhelmed by a terrible sense of danger.

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About the Author:

Nina Bawden (1925-2012) was one of Britain's best-loved writers for both adults and children. Several of her children's books - Carrie's War, a Phoenix Award winner;The Peppermint Pig, which won the Guardian Fiction Award; and Keeping Henry - have become contemporary classics. She wrote over forty novels, slightly more than half of which are for adults, and she was shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit. She received the prestigious S T Dupont Golden Pen Award for a lifetime's contribution to literature in 2004, and in 2010 The Birds on the Trees was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.

From AudioFile:

Nina Bawden's most recent story concerns Fanny Pye, a widow in her sixties, who is mugged when she intervenes in a street fight. As she recuperates, her memory still fuzzy, her grown son and daughter assume she will be unable to take care of herself. Fanny reasserts herself and succeeds in reclaiming her own life and her independence. This audio production is excellent. Actress Eleanor Bron reads confidently with expert pacing. She differentiates among characters without exaggeration. Family Money is a good choice for popular listening. N.B.H. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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