- Working class women, Physicists, Fiction, Social life and customs
Young Fred Fairly, a junior fellow at St. Angelicus College in 1912 Cambridge, falls in love with the dangerously mysterious Daisy, whom he awakens next to one morning after a freak accident.
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Classical in form, grave, intimate and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 167
- Publisher
- Collins, Stock, Doubleday
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780881849608
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