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Description for Bilgewater
Paperback. *A classic novel of English adolescence Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up in a boys' school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by bad, beautiful Grace and ripe for seduction by entirely the wrong sort of boy, she suffers extravagantly and comically in her pilgrimage through the turbulent, twilight world of alarming adolescence
Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up in a boys' school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by bad, beautiful Grace and ripe for seduction by entirely the wrong sort of boy, she suffers extravagantly and comically in her pilgrimage through the turbulent, twilight world of alarming adolescence
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349114026
SKU
KAC0001721
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Reviews for Bilgewater
A striking story
TLS
One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love
EVENING STANDARD
Lively....excellent
The TIMES
She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Observer
TLS
One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love
EVENING STANDARD
Lively....excellent
The TIMES
She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Observer