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Odd Girl Out
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Odd Girl Out
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Elizabeth Jane Howard
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:352 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781447272366
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.914 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Pan Macmillan
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| Imprint |
Picador
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| Publication Date |
2 July 2015 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll. Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral - and, as they find out, beautiful and loving. With her elegant prose the author traces the web of love and desire that entangles these three; but it is Arabella who finally loses out. Elizabeth Jane Howard reveals with devastating accuracy a situation both shattering and destructive ...
Author Biography
Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fourteen highly acclaimed novels. The Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change - have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and most recently for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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