A Whistling Woman

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The Virgin in the Garden . . . Still Life . . . Babel Tower . . . and now, A Whistling Woman, the triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatt's dazzling and critically acclaimed quartet of novels about English life. It is the late 1960s, and the world begins to split. While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of the novels -- falls into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life and those of the people she loves. Near the university, where the scientists Luk and Jacqueline are studying snails and neurons and the working of the brain, an "anti-university" springs up. On the high moors nearby a gentle therapeutic community is taken over by a turbulent, charismatic leader. Meanwhile, visions of blood and flames, of mirrors and doubles, share the refracting energy of Frederica's mosaic-like television shows.

Through her lovingly drawn characters and breathtaking twists of plot, A. S. Byatt illuminates the effervescence of The 1960s -- both its excitement and its dangers -- as no one has done before. Magical, thought-provoking, and with spine-chilling moments, A Whistling Woman is sexy and scary, and bursting with ideas, scientific discoveries, ethical conflicts, sly humor, and wonderful humanity

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About the Author

A. S. Byatt was born on 24 August 1936 Sheffield, United Kingdom. She is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. She lives in London.