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font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">A.
S. Byatt</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> 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.</span></p>

