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Virago Modern Classics, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Romance
From this well-loved author comes a novel that is 'an upper- middle-class version of Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies' ( Independent on Sunday), full of intrigues, betrayals and family secrets.
From this well-loved author comes a novel that is 'an upper- middle-class version of Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies' (Independent on Sunday), full of intrigues, betrayals and family secrets.
In six days Silas Mudd will be one hundred years old and i
Praise for Ruffian On The Stair
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Her great talent is to be able to take you along a perfectly ordinary street, rip the fa?ade away and show the strange and passionate events that go on behind closed doors - DAILY TELEGRAPH
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It is a measure of Bawden's skill, that she manages to show both the terrors of extreme longevity and its comic potential. But then she is a wonderfully accomplished writer and this is a very enjoyable book. - THE TIMES
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An upper-middle class version of Mike Leigh's SECRETS AND LIES. - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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Bawden has a penetraing eye for both the insalubrious and gorgeous detail, homing in with language that is always crisp and precise. - GUARDIAN
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Her great talent is to be able to take you along a perfectly ordinary street, rip the fa?ade away and show the strange and passionate events that go on behind closed doors - DAILY TELEGRAPH
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It is a measure of Bawden's skill, that she manages to show both the terrors of extreme longevity and its comic potential. But then she is a wonderfully accomplished writer and this is a very enjoyable book. - THE TIMES
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An upper-middle class version of Mike Leigh's SECRETS AND LIES. - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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Bawden has a penetraing eye for both the insalubrious and gorgeous detail, homing in with language that is always crisp and precise. - 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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