{"product_id":"9780349018393","title":"A Green Equinox","description":"Author: Elizabeth Mavor\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349018393\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 14 Nov 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;h3\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eWhile I waited for sleep I retraced the road which brought me to you. Unbelievably it only took six months, equinox to equinox. \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026lt;\/h3\u0026gt;\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis dazzling rediscovered classic, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1973, is a heady, witty and seductive exploration of female sexuality - perfect for fans of Iris Murdoch and Brigid Brophy. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Funny and brave and moving and absolutely bonkers. I love this novel' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A transgressive classic . . . intrepid, eccentric, and not giving a damn' \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Elizabeth Mavor relishes spirited, unorthodox women, free with their tongues and ready to snap their fingers at convention'  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in   the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the   spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. First her quiet but forbidden   liaison with Hugh Shafto, the curator of the country's finest collection of   Rococo art, comes to an abrupt halt when she develops an adoration for his   straight-talking, do-gooding wife Belle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut this relationship leads to other, even more unexpected feelings for Belle's widowed mother-in-law, the   majestic Kate Shafto, who spends her days tending her garden and sailing her   handmade boats in the waters of the miniature archipelago she's constructed in a disused gravel pit.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A strange little nugget of a novel . . . I'd like any book that could be described as a mix between Beatrix Potter, JG Ballard and Sophocles' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A sprawling pleasure (come for the oddly troubled surface of a reclaimed gravel-pit, stay for the tragicomedy of intergenerational queer desire)' Eley Williams \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46491597111454,"sku":"ADS-9780349018393","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349018393.jpg?v=1770594735","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349018393","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}