Synopses & Reviews
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“Stylish, surprising, teasing, but above all grippingly readable.” Margaret Drabble
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“A fascinating drama of knowledge and power, reason and desire.” New York Times Book Review
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“A stirring meditation on the profound effect reading can have on the soul.” Esquire
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“Superb … imaginative … a unique story [that is] romantic, dark, disturbing.” San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author
Patricia Duncker teaches writing and nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She is the author of two previous novels, Hallucinating Foucault, which won Dillon's First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize for best first novel, and The Doctor, as well as a collection of stories, Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees.