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A beautiful new edition of Lavinia Greenlaw's mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-'70s Essex. 'A poet's eye clearly informs Greenlaw's beautifully observed portrait of Seventies provincial life.

In prose layered like paint, Greenlaw conjures up the period through details that will strike endless chords with readers who grew up at that time...This is a suggestive, elusive novel, which achieves a magical effect by the gradual accumulation of images.' Vogue Lavinia Greenlaw puts before us the monochrome, immemorial middle England of the 1970s in all its dowdy glory, and has us see through the mercurial, bewitching Mary George's eyes how a seemingly static landscape is suddenly illuminated by the most vivid bursts of energy, colour and drama.

Punk's torch flares into life and singes the fringes of England.

Mary George bears witness and burns brighter still: she is more memorable than even the extraordinary events around her, and the reader will find it devastatingly hard to leave her company at the end of this exceptional debut about growing up under the shadow of an unknowable, inescapable small-town mystery.

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Flamingo
0007105940 / 9780007105946
Paperback
823.914
04/02/2002
United Kingdom
English
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320p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: 2001.
A beautiful new edition of Lavinia Greenlaw's mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-'70s Essex. * Greenlaw has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and has won the Forward Prize for her poetry; she also received one of the new 'genius' lottery awards in 2000 * Publication will coincide with the hardback of Greenlaw's hotly anticipated new novel, An Irresponsible Age, ensuring extra media interest in this wonderfully talented author * Her third collection of poetry, Minsk, was published in 2003 and shortlisted for the prestigious Forward poetry prize, furth
A beautiful new edition of Lavinia Greenlaw's mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-'70s Essex. * Greenlaw has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and has won the Forward Prize for her poetry; she also received one of the new 'genius' lottery awards in 2000 * Publication will coincide with the hardback of Greenlaw's hotly anticipated new novel, An Irresponsible Age, ensuring extra media interest in this wonderfully talented author * Her third collection of poetry, Minsk, was published in 2003 and shortlisted for the prestigious Forward poetry prize, furth FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)