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Jane mary gardam obe frsl born 11 july 1928 is an english writer of childrens and adult fiction. And she also understands the role that stories might play in the life of a girl being raised by an abstracted, academic father. Even if there are other books by the same author that you realize are more worthy of recognition, the joy of discovery lends your first a lingering glow. The evening standard described bilgewater as one of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love. Other people calle her bilgewater, a corruption of bills daughter. It won the phoenix award from the childrens literature association in 1991, which recognizes the best childrens book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.
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Jan 10, 2011 i hate the idea of sequels, jane gardam tells me, a burst of vehemence interrupting the otherwise even pace and tranquil delivery of her speech. The first book you read by a favorite author has a special quality. She is married with three children and divides her time between east kent and yorkshire. Her latest books are the people on privilege hill 2007, a collection of short stories, and the novels the man in the wooden hat 2009 and last friends 20. A lthough jane gardam did not publish her first book until she was in her late 30s, writing has always been a part of her life. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Then her mother died, and now everyone calls her bilgewatera pun on bills daughter crafted by her fathers students at a boys school in the remote north of england. She was educated at saltburn high school for girls, and won a scholarship to the university of london where she read english at bedford college. Originally published in 1977, jane gardams bilgewater is an affectionate and complex renderinginminiature of the discomforts of growing up and first love seen through the eyes of inimitable marigold green, an awkward, eccentric, highly intelligent girl. The dallas morning news jane gardams beautiful, vivid, defiantly funny novel is a must.
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