Telegram: Where are the Snows: About the Author

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978-1-84659-001-6
Fiction
February 2006
13 x 20 cm
Paperback
377 pages
£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 has also published My Cleaner, My Driver,and The Ice People with Telegram. My Animal Life is her latest novel.

Maggie was the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, 2004-2008, and is now one of its Vice-Presidents. She lives in London.

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Nay, never ask this week, fair lord,
Where they are gone, nor yet this year,
Except with this for an overword,
But where are the snows of yester-year?

François Villon
Where Are the Snows (1461)

Excerpts

In the morning I'll have to see us in the mirror, another mirror, another hotel, I'll be fifty-five, he'll be thirty and eager, nothing we've said can be erased, the sun will photograph the skin of my arm, a map of microscopic rifts and valleys, and we'll quarrel mildly and go down to breakfast, an older woman and her sulky young lover...