A Woman Of My Age

Description

Elizabeth and Richard are on holiday in Morocco, travelling from its fertile coast to the barren uplands beyond the Atlas mountains. During the expedition's adventures and mishaps, Elizabeth surveys her eighteen-year marriage and its accumulations of grievance, frustration and betrayal. Nina Bawden allows us to see the ambivalences and deceptions on both sides as this touching and often subversively comic novel moves towards a shocking catastrophe and a wryly surprising coda.

Nina Bawden, CBE, is one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved novelists. She has published over forty novels and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit. In 2004 she received the PEN Award for a Lifetime's Service to Literature.

'Absorbing and quietly uncompromising, redolent with the vibrant smells and colours of Majorca, and of Spain' Daily Telegraph 'A highly revealing account, not only of a woman's life, but of a whole extraordinary passage in one contemporary European country...it should be read by everybody interested in Spain and in women's special history in the present century' Financial Times 'A personal, at times lucid and always colourful account of life - and a life - in post-war Spain' Sunday Times 'It is unfair to look for a poetic sensibility in the daughter of a poet, yet Lucia Graves has plenty of it. She is a fine writer' Literary Review 'The first thing to admire about Nina Bawden is her abundant energy ... the second thing ... is that this energy, this rich, imaginative streak is usually put to the services of a nicely sly wit' Robert Nye 'Nina Bawden beautifully captures the capricious intensity of sibling love, rivalry and loyalty. She is reluctant to pin blame and quick to display compassion. She is also logical enough to offer no easy solutions, but sufficiently warm-hearted to include realistic sprinklings of hope. The combination is excellent; her book is a joy to read' Christian Science Monitor