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* Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this marvellous novel is about the heroic yet impossible desire to protect another human being with love
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this marvellous novel is about the heroic yet impossible desire to protect another human being with love
CIRCLES OF DECEIT is narrated by a painter who specialises as a copyist, this is his story: 'bothered by bill
Praise for Circles Of Deceit
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'Beautifully observed' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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'Plays with time and notions of forgery and fidelity in life and art, as well as tracing with extraordinary exactness and creative tact the pain and survival of loss of a loved one' GUARDIAN
Nina Bawden
Nina Bawden (1925-2012), CBE, was one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved novelists, both for adults and children (Peppermint Pig and Carrie's War being among her most famous books for young people). She has published over forty novels and an autobiography, In My Own Time. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit and her novel Family Money was filmed by Channel 4, starring Claire Boom and June Whitfield. In 2004 she received the S. T. Dupont Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Contribution to Literature.
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