"From the bestselling author and the first ever winner of the Orange Prize comes a new novel set in Bristol at the height of the Romantic Era that follows a freethinking young woman in her new marriage to a ruthlessly ambitious property developer. Weaving a deeply personal and moving story with a historical moment of critical and complex importance, this is an unsettling and brilliantly tense drama of public and private violence, resistance and terror from one of our greatest storytellers."--Provided by the publisher.
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ISBN:9780802127143
ISBN:9780802128584 (paperback)
Physical Description:regular print 406 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "From the bestselling author and the first ever winner of the Orange Prize comes a new novel set in Bristol at the height of the Romantic Era that follows a freethinking young woman in her new marriage to a ruthlessly ambitious property developer. Weaving a deeply personal and moving story with a historical moment of critical and complex importance, this is an unsettling and brilliantly tense drama of public and private violence, resistance and terror from one of our greatest storytellers."--Provided by the publisher.