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Mary George of Allnorthover by Lavinia Greenlaw

Mary George of Allnorthover by Lavinia Greenlaw

Fiction, Flamingo, Lavinia Greenlaw, Psychological, Historical fiction, Contemporary 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. ' VogueLavinia 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.
Book Condition: Well Read
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Genres and Themes
Fiction, Flamingo, Lavinia Greenlaw, Psychological , Historical fiction, Contemporary

Condition

Well Read
Pages

272
Language

EN
Publication Date

2002


ISBN

9780007105946
Binding

Paperback
Publisher

Flamingo