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Penelope Fitzgerald was the author of nine novels, three of which -- The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels -- were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the prize in 1979 for Offshore. A superb biographer and critic, she was also the author of lives of the artist Edward Burne-Jones, the poet Charlotte Mew and The Knox Brothers, a study of her remarkable family. She died in April 2000.

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A Month in the Country by Penelope Fitzgerald, J. L. Carr

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In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in the next field in search of a lost grave. Out of their meeting, comes a deeper communion and a catching up...

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

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Set in the small provincial and university towns between Leipzig and Berlin at the very end of the 18th century, this novel's central character is the great romantic philosopher Novalis. Fitzgerald won the Booker Prize in 1979 for "Offshore". She has also been shortlisted several times.

The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald

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Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow. Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his...