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~3h 26min
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Women Authors
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General
Published 1968 Pan Macmillan
ISBN
0754004465, 9780754004462
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Nina Bawden

Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer. According to the BBC, Bawden was "one of the few modern novelists to write successfully for both adults and children", while P. D. James described her as "among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today". A recipient of the Golden PEN Award, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.

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Emma and Henry Lingard and Holly and Felix Craven are neighbors, old friends, durably wedded. Each thinks he understands the other well; better, perhaps, than he understands himself. All except Emma. She cries for help out of her private nightmares, but no one listens. Her recourse is a fantasy life written out in unsent letters. Then a series of crises shatters the tenuous balance of Emma's life and the routine of their days...

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