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Synopsis
This collection brings together past and present, probing many and varied lives. The title story examines Jane Austen's love life, while others introduce a trio of mean-spirited and middle-aged Kensington widows, a dreaded stranger, and the mercurial changes in young love.
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About the Author
Jane Gardam is a Whitbread Award Winner and her novel GOD ON THE ROCKS was runner-up for the Booker Prize. She is winner of the David Higham Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize.THE PANGS OF LOVE won the Katherine Mansfield Award. She was awarded an OBE in January 2009.
Review
... combines an extraordinary vivid imagination with a felicity of expression, a hugely developed sense of the absurd, and the ability to involve a reader's emotions with her characters in a few pages.―EVENING STANDARD
The economical exactitude of her observation makes each of these eleven stories a keen pleasure.―DAILY TELEGRAPH
Brilliantly observed... moving.―THE TIMES
A fresh and huge delight... deliciously barbed.―GUARDIAN
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