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Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. Three of her novels, The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the Prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as the âBook of the Yearâ. It won Americaâs National Book Criticsâ Circle Award. She died in April 2000, at the age of eighty-three.
<p>âReading a Penelope Fitzgerald novel is like being taken for a ride in a peculiar kind of car. Everything is of top quality â the engine, the coachwork and the interior all fill you with confidence. Then, after a mile or so, someone throws the steering-wheel out of the window.â Sebastian Faulks</p>
<p>âWise and ironic, funny and humane, Fitzgerald is a wonderful, wonderful writer.â David Nicholls</p>
<p>âFor the life of me I canât decide how properly to respond to this book. Whether it contains a latent moral or allegorical message, or whether it is simply a tour de force of craft and imagination I have not the faintest idea. I only know that it is one of the most skilful and utterly fascinating novels I have read for years. I cannot imagine any kind of reader who would not get a thrill from this gloriously peculiar book.â Jan Morris, Independent</p>
<p>âPenelope Fitzgerald has produced a real Russian comedy, at once crafty and scatty. She has mastered a city, a landscape and a vanished time. She has written something remarkable, part novel, part evocation, and done so in prose that never puts a foot wrong. She is so unostentatious a writer that she needs to be read several times. What is impressive is the calm confidence behind the apparent simplicity of utterance. âThe Beginning of Springâ is her best novel to date.â Anita Arookner, Spectator</p>
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Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. Three of her novels, The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the Prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as the âBook of the Yearâ. It won Americaâs National Book Criticsâ Circle Award. She died in April 2000, at the age of eighty-three.