Frederica Potter, 'Doomed To Be Intelligent', Plunges Into Cambridge University Life Greedy For Knowledge, Sex And Love. In Yorkshire Her Sister Stephanie Has Abandoned Academe For The Cosy Frustration Of The Family. In This Sequel To Her Much Praised The Virgin In The Garden, And The Second In A Magnificent Quartet, A. S. Byatt Illuminates The Inevitable Conflicts Between Ambition And Domesticity, Confinement And Self-Fulfilment, While Providing A Subtle Yet Incisive Observation Of The Intellectual And Cultural Life In England During The 1950S.
About the Author
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.
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