Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

<b><b>ONE OF THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW€ S </i>10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR<br></b>A Best Book of the Year: <i>San Francisco Chronicl</i>e, <i>Seattle Times<br></i>Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography</b><br><br>Penelope Fitzgerald, one of the most quietly brilliant novelists of the twentieth century, was a great English writer whose career didn€t begin until she was nearly sixty. Her life was marked by dramatic twists of fate, moving from a bishop€s palace to a sinking houseboat to a last, late blaze of renown. Her exquisite novels€"short, spare masterpieces€"would go on to win some of the most coveted awards in literature: the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, in an impeccable match of talent between biographer and subject, Hermione Lee gives us this remarkable writer€s story.