Awards Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee) Saltire Literary Awards Best Book Whitbread Prize Best Novel (nominee)
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Kate Atkinson
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 399
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316740401
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Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Besides novels, she has penned one play and a collection of short stories.
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