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Girl Reading

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Publication Date: 29/05/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist's servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young man.

A real wow of a first novel. The premise is alarmingly simple and yet somehow stunning: seven portraits, seven artists, seven girls and women reading ... A wonderful, imaginative evocation of seven different worlds ... It's very rare for a novel to have a real freshness and originality but at the same time to evoke echoes of other literary memories. This feels incredibly clever. It's a book packed full of adventures and stories and you completely lose yourself in them ... This book's great strength: the perfect, separate, involving worlds it creates. Like Mitchell, Ward is equally adept at shifting between completely different registers and voices ... It [has] real beating heart ... It will be fascinating to see what she writes next Viv Groskop, The Times A debut of rare individuality and distinction. Katie Ward inhabits each of her seven eras with a fluent and intuitive touch, and sentence by sentence, deft and mercurial, she surpasses the reader s' expectations. What is set down on the page has a rich an Hilary Mantel

Title: Girl Reading
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Contributors: By (author) Katie Ward

ISBN 13: 9781844086870
ISBN 10: 1844086879

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Publication Date: 29/05/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 823.92 (DC23)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Height: 196mm
Width: 126mm
Thickness: 22mm
Weight: 280g