Nina Bawden
By the Author
Carrie’s War
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY EMMA CARROLL 'A touching, utterly convincing book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'What a deep, dark, deceptively simple, brilliant novel it is' EMMA…
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The Peppermint Pig
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S FICTION 'Warm and funny, this tale of a pint-size pig and the family he saves will take up…
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Keeping Henry
BY THE BELOVED AUTHOR OF CARRIE'S WAR AND THE PEPPERMINT PIG 'A subtle and many-layered story, one of Nina Bawden's best' OBSERVER 'What a consummate…
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Dear Austen
Accidents happen to other people. But on On May 10th 2002, Nina Bawden discovered what it feels like to be one of the 'other people'.…
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The Birds On The Trees
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOST MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'Nina Bawden gets inside the skins of all her people and shows them as paradoxical, crotchety, adulterous, ambitious…
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Anna Apparent
'A born story-teller' INDEPENDENT 'Nina Bawden has always presented such ingratiating characters that you wonder, distantly, at her interest in Anna' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'Throughout her…
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A Little Love, A Little Learning
'Bawden has concentrated on the careful depiction of character, feelings and behaviour' GUARDIAN 'On every page there is a shock of recognition' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Among…
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Family Money
'Marvellous . . . Funny, subtle, sympathetic' OBSERVER 'One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists' CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN 'Bawden's contemporary truths, laced…
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Circles Of Deceit
'Beautifully observed' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today' P. D. JAMES 'Nina Bawden's powerful exploration of deception gradually unfolds a…
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Afternoon Of A Good Woman
'One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists' CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN 'So intelligent and clear-eyed that every page seems to peel another layer…
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Devil By The Sea
'A born story teller' INDEPENDENT 'Nina Bawden's readers should be numbered like the sands of the sea' GUARDIAN 'The first time the children saw the…
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Familiar Passions
'The reader is thoroughly entranced and entertained' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today' P. D. JAMES 'There's a speck…
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George Beneath A Paper Moon
'A cast of nice, idiosyncratic characters . . . in the Turkish political climate' NEW YORK TIMES 'She held her readers' attention with her taut,…
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A Grain Of Truth
'This is the off-side of lust in plush suburbia, described by a crypto-moralist with a mischievous sense of humour' SUNDAY TIMES 'A born story-teller' INDEPENDENT…
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The Ice House
'A darkly comedic tale of adultery that features a dangerously "good" and disciplined heroine' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'Throughout her career Bawden has concentrated on the careful…
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A Nice Change
'A sophisticated comedy, hugely enjoyable' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A gently entertaining tale of summer love and Brits abroad' HARPERS AND QUEEN 'The story proceeds at…
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Walking Naked
'Dazzlingly effective . . . not easy to forget' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Continually surprising, witty and often disquieting, Walking Naked is one of Nina Bawden's most…
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A Woman Of My Age
'Absorbing and quietly uncompromising, redolent with the vibrant smells and colours of Majorca, and of Spain' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A highly revealing account, not only of…
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Ruffian On The Stair
'It is a measure of Bawden's skill, that she manages to show both the terrors of extreme longevity and its comic potential' THE TIMES 'An…
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In My Own Time
'A born story-teller, a gift as evident in this autobiography as in her novels' INDEPENDENT 'A joy' David Holloway, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Casts light on the…