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Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963. She is the author of Taft, The Magician’s Assistant and Bel Canto for which she won the Orange Prize 2002. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award. She has also written for numerous publications including, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, Vogue, GQ, Elle and Gourmet. Ann Patchett lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
<p>‘A fairy tale. A delight’ <em>New York Times Book Review</em></p>
<p>‘Beautifully written…a first novel that second and third time novelists would envy for its grace, insight and compassion’ <em>Boston Herald</em></p>
<p>‘Patchett is unique; a generous, fearless and startlingly wise young writer’ <em>New York Times</em></p>
The first novel from the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award.
It is 1968. Rose Clinton arrives at St Elizabeth’s, a Roman Catholic home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky. Rose has fled her dull but loving husband without telling him she is pregnant and has decided to be ‘a liar for the rest of my life’. As penance, she has also abandoned her widowed and much loved mother, with no mention of her condition.
Rose plans to give her baby up because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs. But St. Elizabeth’s is home to a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she realises that she cannot go through with her plans. Nor can she remain untouched by those she has left behind; by the ever-watchful Sister Evangeline; by the love of Son, the handyman at St. Elizabeth; or later by the birth of her daughter Cecilia.
Enchantingly graceful, Ann Patchett’s first novel is about sanctuary and pilgrimage, pain and healing and the helping hand of chance.
The Sunday Times best selling author of The Dutch House and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction
• THE MAGICIAN’S ASSISTANT was short-listed for the 1998 Orange Prize for Women’s Fiction; Bel Canto won the prize in 2002
• Over 50,000 copies of Bel Canto sold in paperback in the UK to date
• ‘Ann Patchett has written such a good first novel that among the many pleasures it offers is the anticipation of how wonderful her second, third and fourth will surely be… It is about pilgrimage and healing… A fairy tale. A delight.’ The New York Times Book Review
• ‘Beautifully written … Ann Patchett has produced a first novel that second and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight and compassion.’ Boston Herald
• THE PATRON SAINT OF LIARS was a New York Times ‘Notable Book’.
Competition: The Testaments; Olive Kitteridge; Normal People; Fleishman is in Trouble; Milkman; Life After Life; An American Marriage; How to Be Both; May We Be Forgiven. Margaret Atwood; Elizabeth Strout; Salley Rooney; Taffy Brodesser-Akner; Anna Burns; Kate Atkinson; Tayari Jones; Ali Smith; A.M. Homes
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963. She is the author of Taft, The Magician’s Assistant and Bel Canto for which she won the Orange Prize 2002. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award. She has also written for numerous publications including, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, Vogue, GQ, Elle and Gourmet. Ann Patchett lives in Nashville, Tennessee.