Crusoe's Daughter

Description

In 1904, when she was six, Polly Flint went to live with her two holy aunts at the yellow house by the marsh - so close to the sea that it seemed to toss like a ship, so isolated that she might have been marooned on an island. And there she stayed for eighty-one years, while the century raged around her, while lamplight and Victorian order became chaos and nuclear dred. Crusoe's Daughter, ambitious, moving and wholly original, is her story.

Promotion info

* A reissue of one of Jane Gardam's best-loved novels

Reviews

Jane Gardam is at her most characteristic and briliant -- Victoria Glendinning Sunday Times Engaging and witty Observer Touching, terribly sad, funny: a smashing novel The Times

Author description

Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.