Knowledge of Angels (UK HB - INSCRIBED to Geoffrey Howe)

Paton Walsh, Jill

ISBN 10: 0948845058 / ISBN 13: 9780948845055

Published by Colt Books, 1994

About this Item

UK hardback second impression. INSCRIBED to Lord Howe in Cambridge on and dated 10.11.94. Has the Howe's bookplate to front pastedown. Near fine in VG jacket, unclipped with a bit of spine fade, and creasing to top edge of front panel.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1731592368713

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knowledge of Angels (UK HB - INSCRIBED to Geoffrey Howe)
• Publisher: Colt Books
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0948845058
• ISBN 13: 9780948845055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

A fable-like tale, set in the Middle Ages, focuses on two outcasts, an atheist prince and a wolf child confined to a nunnery, who become pawns in a theological controversy. Booker Prize nominee. Reprint.

About the Author

Jill Paton Walsh was educated at St Michael's Convent, North Finchley, and at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is the author of several highly praised adult novels: Lapsing, A School For Lovers, Knowledge of Angels, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, Goldengrove Unleaving, The Serpentine Cave and A Desert in Bohemia. She has also won many awards for her children's literature, including the Whitbread Prize, the Universe Prize and the Smarties Award. She has three children and lives in Cambridge.