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George Beneath A Paper Moon Nina Bawden

George Beneath A Paper Moon By Nina Bawden

George Beneath A Paper Moon by Nina Bawden


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'I like it as much as any novel I've read this year. The comedy lies, as in the best and subtlest of comedies, in the exquisite patterning, they way in which events bounce and reverberate' New Statesman

George Beneath A Paper Moon Summary

George Beneath A Paper Moon by Nina Bawden

'A cast of nice, idiosyncratic characters . . . in the Turkish political climate' NEW YORK TIMES

'She held her readers' attention with her taut, inventive unfolding of twists and turns' GUARDIAN

'The comedy lies, as in the best and subtlest of comedies, in the exquisite patterning' NEW STATESMAN

George is an unusually successful travel agent, providing other people with the adventures he dare not risk. Though content to wrap himself in fantasies, he is haunted by the fact that 'the important things happened whilst his back was turned' and by the belief that he fathered the daughter - now a desirable young woman - of his best friends, Sam and Claire. To avoid temptation, George stumbles into a disastrous marriage and determines to mould himself into a supportive husband. But a holiday in Turkey snaps his private world when George finds himself in the midst of intrigue and murder and is forced to acknowledge that life is not the fairy-tale he'd imagined. In this superbly constructed and mercilessly observed novel, part comedy, part thriller, Nina Bawden exposes the fictions we impose on our lives.

George Beneath A Paper Moon Reviews

I like it as much as any novel I've read this year. The comedy lies, as in the best and subtlest of comedies, in the exquisite patterning, they way in which events bounce and reverberate * New Statesman *
Nina Bawden develops a cast of nice, idiosyncratic characters whose chronic troubles suddenly become acute in the Turkish political climate * New York Times *
She held her readers' attention with her taut, inventive unfolding of twists and turns in her characters' lives, which were unpredictable but always true to their own complexities and relationships * Guardian *

About Nina Bawden

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, In 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.

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NLS9781844084319
9781844084319
1844084310
George Beneath A Paper Moon by Nina Bawden
New
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
2006-11-02
192
N/A
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