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DescriptionIn 1904, when she was six, Polly Flint went to live with her two holy aunts at the yellow house by the marsh - so close to the sea that it seemed to toss like a ship, so isolated that she might have been marooned on an island. And there she stayed for eighty-one years, while the century raged around her, while lamplight and Victorian order became chaos and nuclear dred. Crusoe's Daughter, ambitious, moving and wholly original, is her story. Promotion info* A reissue of one of Jane Gardam's best-loved novels ReviewsJane Gardam is at her most characteristic and briliant -- Victoria Glendinning Sunday Times Engaging and witty Observer Touching, terribly sad, funny: a smashing novel The Times Author descriptionJane 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. |