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Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education Book

Jigsaw New edition of the biographical novel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. Co-incides with the publication of Bedford's memoirs in June and a four part Radio 4 serialisation. Full descriptionRead More

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  • Foyles

    This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French Riviera. Sent away to England for schooling, the gypsy-like Billi ricochets between short-lived tutors and a life of reading, friends and public lectures. Returning to the Mediterranean, her unorthodox education – intellectual, emotional and sexual – continues among the vibrant community of artists, exiles and intellectuals who have colonised the coast, coaxing her towards a life of literature.

  • Blackwell

    Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Sybille Bedford's latest novel walks the borderline between autobiography and fiction. It picks up where A Legacy leaves off, leading us from the Kaiser's Germany into the wider Europe of the 1920s and the limbo...

  • BookDepository

    Jigsaw : Paperback : Eland Publishing Ltd : 9780907871798 : : 21 Jul 2009

  • 0907871798
  • 9780907871798
  • Sybille Bedford
  • 24 June 2005
  • Eland Publishing Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
  • New edition
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