The Dark Circle
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
It's 1949, the Second World War is over and a new decade of recovery is beginning, but for East End teenage twins who have been living on the edge of the law, life has been suspended. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, they are sent away to a sanatorium in Kent to take the cure and submit to the authority of the doctors, learning the deferential way of the patient.Through doors newly opened by the year-old NHS come Lenny, a street-dandy in his striped London drape suit, and Miriam in her cherry-red felt coat and beret pinned gingerly onto stiff blue-black curls. Trapped in a sterile, closed environment the twins find themselves in wider company tha…
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- ISBN: 978-0-349-00675-8
- EAN: 9780349006758
- Produktnummer: 20336255
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.7 cm 556 g
- Gewicht: 556
Über den Autor
Linda Grant is author of five non-fiction books and seven novels. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006. The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and went on to win the South Bank Show Award. The Dark Circle was shortlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel, A Stranger City, was published in 2019. Linda Grant lives in London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds honorary doctorates from the University of York and John Moores University.
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