Familiar Passions

Informationen zum Autor Nina Bawden (1925-2012), CBE, was one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved novelists, both for adults and children ( Peppermint Pig and Carrie's War being among her most famous books for young people). She has published over forty novels and an autobiography, I n My Own Time . She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit and her novel Family Money was filmed by Channel 4, starring Claire Boom and June Whitfield. In 2004 she received the S. T. Dupont Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Contribution to Literature. Vorwort 'Nina Bawden deals out her ironic shocks with scrupulous timing; the reader is thoroughly entranced and entertained' Times Literary Supplement Zusammenfassung 'Nina Bawden deals out her ironic shocks with scrupulous timing; the reader is thoroughly entranced and entertained' Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: Nina Bawden, Nina Bawden Deceased
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9781844084302
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-430-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 200 mm x 11 mm
• Series: VMC; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Psychological thriller, Fiction: general and literary