Offshore. Human voices. The beginning of spring

In my opinion, Penelope Fitzgerald is one of the most under-rated writers of our age. Her prose is spare, lucid and extraordinarily evocative. Her early novels are rooted in experience (of life on a London houseboat, running a decidedly third rate drama school etc). In her later years she turned to

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historical settings, but retained her ability to transport the reader to a demi-monde that consumes our interest in unexpected ways.

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