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ISBN: 1 84659 013 2
Publication: 16 November 2006
Format: 13 x 20 cm
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 212pp
Price: £7.99

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Maggie Gee

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Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists'. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including The White Family, which was shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction and for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2004; and The Flood, which was longlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize. She is the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and lives in London.

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'The stories in this elegant book often pinpoint the places where morality and snobbery meet. ... Her writing is superbly assured, with a crystalline clarity and understated humour.' The Times Read more praise for The Blue ...
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In the distance, under a spreading tree, her elder children were debating with others. Usually they only saw her in the kitchen.

They spotted her just as she was leaving the campus and heading on down towards the wide white sand.

'Mum,' they called, astonished. 'Mum! Mu-uM! Where are you going?'

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